Period Quotes

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. (George Carlin)
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. View quote
Paul Ricœur
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. (John C. Calhoun)
Youth is a period of missed opportunities. View quote
Cyril Connolly
I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone. View quote
Pierre Cardin
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever. View quote
Michael Foot
People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true. View quote
Enya
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. View quote
A. P. Herbert
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. View quote
Max Beerbohm
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. View quote
Dan Quayle
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. View quote
Jean Cocteau
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. View quote
Pierre Loti
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it. (Blaise Pascal)
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them - the desire to do right - is precisely the same. View quote
Robert E. Lee
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex. View quote
Margaret Mead
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. View quote
Ambrose Bierce