Watches

Famous quotes containing the word watches:

    “One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
    A gentle face—the face of one long dead—
    Looks at me from the wall,”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama.... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.”
    —Haniel Long (1888–1956)