"Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war."

-- John Shebbeare

#Time Quotes #War Quotes #Trade Quotes

“Always be ready to release your mind.”
“We need leadership, and we need it now.”
“He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.”
“Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.”
“Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.”

Source : Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.128, University of Illinois Press
“Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.”
“I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?”
“When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.”

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