"Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Carpe Diem Quotes #Past Quotes #Locks Quotes

“We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of artillery or an earthwork lined with infantry.”

Source : "Bethel to Sharpsburg".
“... far be it from a Frenchman to interfere with love.”
“Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.”
“Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. "I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be a mother, and I surely dinna intend to let anyone else father your children.”
“Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?”
“It seems to me that the orthodox religions always know more about the Devil than I do and can describe him in more detail, and if I hadn't a nice type of mind I'd begin to wonder what company they keep when the moon rides high in the sky and good witches are doing simple little incantations and asking for spiritual guidance.”
“So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.”
“We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?”

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.81, Broadway Books

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