Quotes
Quotes about Time
'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart pass close to each other in the naked breadth of the ocean, nay, sometimes even touch in the dark.
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.
What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West.
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
