“Shorth is better than length.”

— Dr. Seuss

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American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of B… 1904–1991

Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer

As quoted in The Reader's Digest (1992) Vol. 140, p. 194

“They live and laugh who know the better part —
Count length of pleasure not by dial or glass
But by the heart”

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist

The Golden Ass (1999)
Context: They live and laugh who know the better part —
Count length of pleasure not by dial or glass
But by the heart;
What are our fears
When Time's slow footfall, fall, fall
Falling
Turns lovers' hours to years?

“The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.”

Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)

Statement just before becoming the longest lived U.S. President as quoted in "Ford eclipses Reagan as oldest ex-president" in USA Today (10 November 2006) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-10-ford_x.htm
2000s

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

“A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.”

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) British politician

Chatham Correspondence, Speech, March 2, 1770, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Quoted by Lord Mahon, "greater than the throne itself", in History of England, vol. v., p. 258.