Alan Bold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.
-- Alan Bold

#Time #Men #Choices
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.
-- Alan Bold

#Leaving #Edinburgh #Shifting
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
-- Alan Bold

#Cities #Edinburgh #Tales
The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.
-- Alan Bold

#Long #Mind #Lines

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

Alan Bold famous quotes

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