Year Quotes - page 2

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep. (Evelyn Waugh)

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

James Thurber

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

W. Somerset Maugham

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Steven Wright

I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.

Vanessa L. Williams

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Robert Burton

I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know.

Brett Favre

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old--many, many people do not have that privilege.' (Earl Warren)

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

W. C. Fields

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bernard Berenson

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

William Cullen Bryant

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Oprah Winfrey

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

Spike Milligan

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Anton Chekhov

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

Ogden Nash

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. (Peter Drucker)

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you still have to file your 990 each year.

Henry Ford

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Gerald Ford

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Ronald Reagan

Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city.

Vitruvius

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