Quotes by Playwrights - Page 20

Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Herb Gardner
Goldie Hawn is funny sexy beautiful talented intelligent warm and consistently sunny. Other than that she doesn't impress me at all.
Neil Simon
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
Pierre Corneille
Time is the stuff life's made of.
David Belasco
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Johann von Goethe
Time is change transformation evolution.
Isaac L. Peretz
Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.
Ben Hecht
Time is the king of men.
William Shakespeare
Time itself is an element.
Johann von Goethe
A little space of time before time expires a little way of breath.
Algernon Swinburne
Come what may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare
A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.
George Bernard Shaw
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst For I have lived today."
Henry Fielding
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.
John Dryden
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann von Goethe
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.
Arnold Bennett
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
Johann von Goethe
Still on it creeps Each little moment at another's heels Till hours days years and ages are made up Of such small parts as these and men look back Worn and bewilder'd wondering how it is.
Joanna Baillie
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
Ugo Betti
Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
Make use of time let not advantage slip.
William Shakespeare
Economy is the thief of time.
Ethel Watts Mumford
I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
William Shakespeare
One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Sir Walter Scott
A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
Arnold Bennett
Seize the hour.
Sophocles
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.
Johann von Goethe
A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Joseph Addison
You have got to own your days and live them each one of them every one of them or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.
Herb Gardner
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas Jerrold
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
Douglas Jerrold
The insolence of office.
William Shakespeare
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann von Goethe
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde
Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
William Shakespeare
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
William Shakespeare
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
Noble blood is an accident of fortune noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
William Shakespeare
Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Johann von Goethe
How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!
Johann von Goethe
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.
Johann von Goethe
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.
Pietro Aretino
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
Fay Weldon
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
John Dryden