Time Number

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or number:

“Benjamin: Do you think I’m proud of myself? Do you think I’m proud of this?
Mrs. Robinson: I wouldn’t know.
Benjamin: Well, I’m not.
Mrs. Robinson: You’re not?
Benjamin: No, sir. I’m not proud that I spend my time with a broken-down alcoholic.”
—Calder Willingham (1923–1995)

“If matrimony be really beneficial to society, the custom that ... married women alone are allowed any claim to place, is as useful a piece of policy as ever was invented.... The ridicule fixed on the appellation of old maid hath, I doubt not, frightened a very large number into the bonds of wedlock.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)