"Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life."

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Source : Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.524, Bloomsbury Publishing

Christopher Marlowe

#Running Quotes #Time Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?”
“The Queen of England jumped out of a helicopter and parachuted into the stadium. What was even more amazing was when Prince Charles flew in using his ears as a hang glider.”
“And that's when it fell off in my hand”
“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”
“Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.”
“Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.”
“Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.”

Source : "Life Under the Necroscope: An Interview with Brian Lumley". Amazon Interview, www.brianlumley.com.
“Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.”

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