Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

George Eliot

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

George Eliot

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

Geoffrey Chaucer

For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.

Francoise Sagan

I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.

Christopher Buckley

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

Christopher Columbus

"Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened."

Christina Rossetti

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

George W. Bush

After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

George Orwell

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Jean Cocteau

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

Jean Cocteau

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

George Carlin

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

Gail Godwin

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

George F. Kennan

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

Fernando Pessoa

There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves

Fay Wray

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

Fay Wray

That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

Ezra Pound

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Eugene O'Neill

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Euripides

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

Euripides

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

Euripides

Youth holds no society with grief.

Francis Picabia

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Francis Bacon

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Francis Bacon

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Francis Bacon

Time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

Francis Bacon

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Jennifer Egan

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

Jean Rostand

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.