A Quote by Montesquieu

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

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Montesquieu
French - Philosopher
January 18, 1689 - February 10, 1755

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

Leo Tolstoy

Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.

Nizar Qabbani

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

Barbara Hershey

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Marilyn vos Savant

To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.

Percy Williams Bridgman

I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

Halsey

Let me tell you something, last night in the debate, during one of the breaks, two of the breaks, Donald Trump went backstage... He asked for a full length mirror. I don't know why because the podium goes up to here. He wanted a full length mirror. Maybe to make sure his pants weren't wet. I don't know.

Marco Rubio

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Evan Esar

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

H. L. Mencken

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

Helen Clark MacInnes

But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

Marietta Holley

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

Austin O'Malley

To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100 feet in length; the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can remain submerged for up to 3 weeks.

Garrison Keillor

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