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time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Charles Caleb Colton
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. Charles Caleb Colton
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Charles Caleb Colton
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. Charles Caleb Colton
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. Charles Caleb Colton
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. Charles Caleb Colton
boredom made ennui
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice. Charles Caleb Colton
boredom judging fool
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom. David Mitchell
boredom enemy television
The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability. David Nevins
boredom towns news
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
boredom speech speak
Speak on, but be not over-tedious. William Shakespeare
boredom afternoon might
She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life. Edith Wharton
boredom overcoming contemplating
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature. Edgar Degas
boredom burns enthusiasm fire plague worth
When fire burns the enthusiasm is worth seeing. People, who are enthusiastic and happy, lethargy and boredom never plague them. Rig Veda
boredom indifference contempt
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. Charlaine Harris
usual hours foolish
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless? E. T. A. Hoffmann
usual holmes compounds
I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
usual common born
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life. Blaise Pascal
usual whilst
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. Raymond E. Feist
usual
We pounded it inside. That isn't something we do real well, but we did it better than usual tonight. Ryan Robertson
usual timing
As usual, my timing is bizarrely good. Jamie Oliver
usual accomplished senate
I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual. Clara Barton
usual
He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips. Franz Ferdinand
usual poor schemes
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries. Vandana Shiva