Days Quotes - page 2

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. View quote
Gore Vidal
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. View quote
William Barclay
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. View quote
Andrew Wiles
I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it. View quote
Jascha Heifetz
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? View quote
Woody Allen
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. (George Herbert)
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. View quote
Anthony Trollope
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Fish and visitors smell in three days. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. View quote
W. C. Fields
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. View quote
Charles Lamb
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. View quote
Charles Lamb
The future is no place to place your better days. View quote
Dave Matthews
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. View quote
Douglas Adams
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. (Gustave Flaubert)
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. View quote
Jack London
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach us much the days never knew. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. View quote
Peter Ustinov