Year Quotes - page 3

In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it. (Vitruvius)
I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as "cold." There is only less heat. View quote
Alton Brown
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. View quote
John Woolman
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. View quote
Magic Johnson
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. View quote
George Carlin
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell Thy fools no more I'll tease This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease. View quote
Alexander Pope
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. View quote
Edmund Burke
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barbers shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year, Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day For Im to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win. View quote
Roger Ebert
Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty. View quote
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four. View quote
Nora Ephron
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. View quote
Robert Browning
A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. View quote
Joan Rivers
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. View quote
Woody Allen
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year. View quote
Victor Borge
Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that. (Jack White)
Bloody men are like bloody buses - You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. View quote
Wendy Cope
I know not whether Laws be right Or whether Laws be wrong All that we know who live in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. View quote
Oscar Wilde
One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. View quote
Georg Brandes
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