Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable the telephone radio and the rest.

In teaching man experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes like the objective reality of things will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

To lengthen thy life lessen thy meals.

Motherhood is priced Of God at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

The prospects for a coherent hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year as the poor waterlogged gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy it lessens our cares by dividing them at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

There is no harm in patience and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God and your sorrow will be lessened.

Honestly I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships which I hope lessens a little bit with age.