“Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”
Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”
Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”
Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
Charles Kettering (1876–1958) American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents
as quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young p. 194
Pat Robertson (1930) American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister
Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions
Pat Robertson (1930) American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
comment September 8, 2004, to concert audience in Washington, D.C. after Emily's drum solo
2007, 2008
“Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred, then yet another thousand, then a hundred.”
Da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
V, lines 8–7
Carmina
“The PLAYSTATION3 will retail for Five-Hundred-Ninety-Nine US Dollars.”
Kazuo Hirai (1960) Japanese businessman