Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”
— Ambrose Bierce · Time
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”
— Ambrose Bierce · Time
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“Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.”
“Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”
“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”
“Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.”
“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”
“Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
“I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.”
“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”