Protracted

Famous quotes containing the word protracted:

    One of those sound slumbers which, lasting in reality some half hour, seem to the sleeper to have been protracted for three weeks or a month.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    That life protracted is protracted woe.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)