| "We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." »Albert Einstein |
| "It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights." »Elizabeth Bowen |
| "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." »Albert Einstein |
| "One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter." »Jonathan Swift |
| "Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone That way, he learns that 'wishing' isn't going to save our national forests." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone." »Sigmund Freud |
| "J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it." »Spider-Man |
| "Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." »Mark Twain |
| "With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." »William Lloyd Garrison |
| "Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still" »J. Paul Getty |
| "Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman." »Erma Bombeck |
| "I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel." »Franklin P. Adams |
| "To fill the hour-that is happiness." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "It is the darkest hour before dawn." »Unknown |
| "Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise." »Horace |
| "The darkest hour has only 60 minutes." »Morris Mandel |
| "Learn that the present hour alone is man's." »Samuel Johnson |
| "What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens" »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year." »Polish Proverb |
| "Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour." »Edward M. Kennedy |
| "Forget the past and live the present hour." »Sarah Knowles Bolton |
| "May you be in heaven a half-hour before the devil knows your dead." »Unknown |
| "The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour." »Japanese Proverb |
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