Present Day Terms

Famous quotes containing the words present, day and/or terms:

    “‘Tis the world-old way of the rain
    When it comes to a mountain farm
    To exact for a present gain
    A little of future harm.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “What a hundred years is not enough to build, one day is more than enough to destroy.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “They were pipes of pagan mirth,
    And the world had found new terms of worth.
    He laid him down on the sunburned earth
    And raveled a flower and looked away.
    Play? Play? What should he play?”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)