So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

-Adams, Douglas Noe«  l
  Title of novel.

Then said I, Lord, how long?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 6:11.

'It's long,'said the Knight,'but it's very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing itöeither it brings the tears into their eyes, or elseö' 'Or else what?'said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. 'Or else it doesn't, you know.'

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch.8,'It's My Own Invention'.

I fear thee ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.4.

It's a damned long, dark, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  She Stoops to Conquer, act1, sc.2.

It's a play that after you've been there for a short while, you wonder how long this isgoing to take.

-Keillor, (Gary Edward) Garrison
  Of Edward  Albee's Three Tall Women. In NewYork, 2  Jan.

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  A  Tract on Monetary Reform.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
The Books in My Life, preface.

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

-Ransom,John Crowe
  Chills and Fever,'Winter Remembered'.

Je regrette l'Europe aux anciens parapets! I long for Europe of the ancient parapets! "

-Rimbaud, (Jean Nicolas) Arthur
Poe¤  sies,'Le Bateau ivre'.

Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. The way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns.

-Seneca full name Lucius AnnaeusSeneca called theYounger
Epistulae, 6.5 (translated by R M Gummere).

   Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

-Southey, Robert
  The Doctor, ch.130.

Like German opera, too long and too loud.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Of warfare. Attributed.

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'Easter1916', l.57^8. Collected in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921).