Quotes on Hours

For poetry, he's past his prime,_x000D_ _x000D_ He takes an hour to find a rhyme;_x000D_ _x000D_ His fire is out, his wit decayed,_x000D_ _x000D_ His fancy sunk, his muse a jade._x000D_ _x000D_ I'd have him throw away his pen,_x000D_ _x000D_ But there's no talking to some men.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America? And patriotic in the tinniest way, with so much flag waving? You'd really think we were some poor little republic, and that if one person lost his religion for one hour, the whole thing would crumble. America is the real religion in this country.

The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

The golden hours on angel wings_x000D_ _x000D_ Flew o'er me and my dearie,_x000D_ _x000D_ For dear to me as light and life_x000D_ _x000D_ Was my sweet Highland Mary.

And in Life's noisiest hour,_x000D_ _x000D_ There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,_x000D_ _x000D_ The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy._x000D_ _x000D_ You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

With aching hands and bleeding feet_x000D_ _x000D_ We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;_x000D_ _x000D_ We bear the burden and the heat_x000D_ _x000D_ Of the long day, and wish 'twere done._x000D_ _x000D_ Not till the hours of light return_x000D_ _x000D_ All we have built do we discern.

Had I but died an hour before this chance,_x000D_ _x000D_ I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant,_x000D_ _x000D_ There's nothing serious in mortality:_x000D_ _x000D_ All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead;_x000D_ _x000D_ The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees_x000D_ _x000D_ Is left this vault to brag of.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe._x000D_ _x000D_ And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;_x000D_ _x000D_ And thereby hangs a tale.

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.