Max Beerbohm: Quotes about time

Max Beerbohm was English writer. Explore interesting quotes on time.

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“You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a whole flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. If man were not a gregarious animal, the world might have achieved, by this time, some real progress towards civilization. Segregate him, and he is no fool. But let him loose among his fellows, and he is lost —- he becomes a unit in unreason.”

Source: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. IX

“Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.”

Laughter (1920) <br class="br"> And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

“Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.”

Source: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. II