American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years but on your will.

To lengthen thy life lessen thy meals.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life devoid of breadth.

It is not length of life but depth of life.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

So influenced by these advisors and this hope I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work as they had long besought me to do.

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs cats lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer unless under compulsion from society.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

What the government has to do if it wants to govern for any length of time is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.