Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Fry

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Germaine Greer

A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.

Gertrude Stein

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Gertrude Stein

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

Gertrude Stein

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

Havelock Ellis

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Hal Borland

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

Hal Borland

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Glen Cook

Time will unfold its leaves.

Gladys Taber

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

Horace

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Herbert Spencer

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Herbert Spencer

Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.

Herman Melville

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Henry David Thoreau

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

Henry David Thoreau

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

Henry David Thoreau

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

Henry David Thoreau

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

Henry David Thoreau

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Henry David Thoreau

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Henry David Thoreau

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Henry David Thoreau

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Henry David Thoreau

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.

Henry David Thoreau

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

H. L. Mencken

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.