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Letter "L" » lengthens
«Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.»
«Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
| Keywords:
broaden, broadened, broadening, Broadens, conversation, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, The Conversation
«Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.»
Author: Elsa Schiaparelli
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
copy, evening clothes, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, shortening, shortens, skirt, skirted, trends
«Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the best of all ways / To lengthen our days / Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
best of all, Days of Heaven, heavens, Late Night, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, steal
«A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
approximation, correspondence, Correspondences, haunting, impertinent, irrelevant, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, preposterous
«The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, The Hours
«All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens
«Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, The Organization
«Frame thy mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bars, frame, harms, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, merriment, mirth
«Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
adds, add on, add up, ascending, ascends, climb, discourages, discouraging, every day, fruitful, get to, glory, improving, journey, journeying, Journey to the, joy, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, path, Paths of Glory, progress, so far, step, stretch, stretch out, The Climb, The End
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