Lifetime

Famous quotes containing the word lifetime:

    You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
    —Polish Proverb. New York Times Magazine (February 20, 1994)

    The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
    Basil Bunting (1900–1985)

    Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
    Allan Bloom (1930–1992)