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Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who laughs, lasts! – Mary Pettibone Poole	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Muscles come and go; flab lasts. – Bill Vaughan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. – Samuel Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever. – Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. – Rachel Carson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who laughs, lasts – Mary Pettibone Poole	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change. – Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through. – Starhawk	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The bigger the hill you climb, The more you can see from the top, The more you enjoy the ride down, And the longer the ride lasts. – Frank Stephens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows. – Peter Brodie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment; Pain of love lasts a lifetime. – Bette Davis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose. – Rob Cella	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles. – Arnold Glasow	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. – Laura Swenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. – Greg Evans	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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