And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?
Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will. Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still.
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing. The Ten Commandments will not budge And stealing will continue stealing.
Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all, For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine.
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]
A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing! Meet the moon upon the lea; Are the emeralds of the spring On the angler's trysting-tree? Tell, sweet thrushes, tell to me, Are there buds on our willow-tree? Buds and birds on our trysting tree?
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
It is never too late to be what you might have been. â¢George Eliot It takes time to build a castle. â¢Irish Proverb A minute now is better than a minute later. â¢Anonymous Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? â¢Karan Varsheni Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. â¢Anonymous I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. â¢Dan Quisenberry Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. â¢Unknown If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. â¢Anonymous To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. â¢Tim Gunter The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. â¢Leo Kennedy Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? â¢Stoppard Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. â¢Berlioz One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. â¢Anonymous You may delay, but time will not. â¢Benjamin Franklin With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. â¢Chinese proverb Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. â¢Cheers You can never plan the future by the past. â¢Edmund Burke Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. â¢Roger Babson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. â¢Paul Valery Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. â¢M Scott Peck Time is the fire in which we burn. â¢Gene Roddenberry You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. â¢Charles Buxton Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. â¢Cervantes Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. â¢Dilbert Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. â¢Will Rogers You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. â¢James Thurber Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. â¢Thomas Mann Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. â¢W N Taylor Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -M. Scott Peck.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Drink to her that each loves best, And if you nurse a flame That's told but to her mutual breast, We will not ask her name.
And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.