Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Samuel Johnson

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Samuel Johnson

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Samuel Johnson

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

Ronald Reagan

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

Ronald Reagan

The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Robert Jordan

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

Robert Jordan

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

Robert Jordan

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Robert Jordan

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

Robert Jordan

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

Robert Jordan

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

Rodney Dangerfield

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Robert Penn Warren

So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

Wallace Stevens

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

Virgil

Time bears away all things.

Vincent Canby

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

William Hogarth

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

Will Wright

Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

Warren Buffett

Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

Warren Buffett

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

Vincent Van Gogh

... life is too short to do the whole.

Vincent Van Gogh

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Vladimir Lenin

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

Vladimir Lenin

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

Vladimir Lenin

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Walter Bagehot

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

Walter Benjamin

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

Walter Benjamin

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.