A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Francis Picabia

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
Jim Samuels

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
Norman MacCaig

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
Alicia Machado

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.
Tia Carrere

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
Georg Hermes

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
Karl Radek

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
Sam Shepard

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
Erma Bombeck

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
Mary Chesnut

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
Trent Lott

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Samuel Richardson

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.
Chantal Kreviazuk

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos

I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
Karrie Webb