Quotes About Distance

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

Hey man! Get away from me!

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

I was a great many far cries from myself.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. [The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.