Days

Famous quotes containing the word days:

    “There lived a sage in days of yore,
    And he a handsome pigtail wore;
    But wondered much, and sorrowed more,
    Because it hung behind him.”
    —Adelbert Von Chamisso (1781–1838)

    “He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 4:2.

    “A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)