[The Pigeon had learned something about [women] from his eight sisters, and if over the years he had absorbed only this one thing, it would stand as vindication that a boy does not suffer needlessly from growing up in a house with eight sisters. That...
Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
As long as a language lives, the people will not perish.
They are not all cooks who carry long knives.
A pearl is worthless as long as it is still in its shell.
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.
A loan long continued usually confers ownership.
Happiness that lasts too long spoils the heart.
Do not stay too long when the husband is not home.
To win a war quickly takes long preparation.
A pearl is worthless as long as it is in its shell.
All are not cooks who walk with long knives.
Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains.
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind.
Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.
Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.
To say goodbye is to die a little.
I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
Do not desire a long life or an early death
May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
