“At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.” LongBornSunLowsCorruptionSpreadMinistersLengthFloodMistAvariceDeluge Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.” LongEnoughPlayBigsTodayIssuesLengthMassiveDominantAugusta Author:Jack Nicklaus
“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.” NeedsLooksLongSoulMomentsCoursesWiseSourceImportanceMadnessWitClarityObservationExplanationNecksLengthFloodCompetingBrevityConjectureGiraffePoloniusRare MomentsMoments Of Clarity Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.” LongStillsFoundDrivenSuperiorsLength Author:John Dryden
“What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.” GivingLittlesLongImaginationPleasureLengthWeary Author:John Lancaster Spalding
“[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.” WayYearsLongTwoSeemsPresidentFourInformationProduceMembersWork OutLengthBroadsFour YearsAncestorDoomedEldersWhalesCabinetsBreadthAcresFootnotesWhirlpools Author:Will Cuppy
“At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.” HeartLongLastsSweetKissingSmartStormLengthPulseSparkling Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems