Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

Ernest Hemingway

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Ernest Hemingway

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

Ernest Hemingway

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Eudora Welty

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

Erwin Schrodinger

For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

Erma Bombeck

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'