Duration Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Duration Grandparent Long Maturity Parents and grandparents
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe Copy Share Image
Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth;… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
