Year Quotes

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today. (Fernando de Rojas)
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. View quote
Thomas Mann
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
79: A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. View quote
Alan Perlis
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. View quote
Steven Spielberg
Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. View quote
Lance Armstrong
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. View quote
Horace Mann
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California, you lose one point of IQ every year. View quote
Truman Capote
YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. View quote
Steve Jobs
More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk. View quote
Bruce Schneier
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. View quote
Carl Sagan
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. View quote
Bill Vaughan
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. (Fred Brooks)
Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood. View quote
Beverly Cleary
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. View quote
Sammy Hagar
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. View quote
James Thurber