Breadth
Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.
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Breadth Quotations
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Georges Clemenceau
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Irving Babbitt
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton
Breadth Translations
breadth in French is travers
breadth in German is Breite
breadth in Latin is amplitudo
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