It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.
I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.
The trouble was that I tried to prolong my youth.
Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.
To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
When I fire, I just look at them and I say, 'You're fired.' I don't prolong it.
I'm definitely not one to prolong things and drag it out, that's not really my personality.
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
If two people are not happy together, it's better to end the relationship than prolong the suffering.
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan