“I once read that there's nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that's lasted too long. I've also heard that God is eternal.”
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Nicolas Chamfort 54
French writer 1741–1794Related quotes

“But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.”
Source: Oryx and Crake

“I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for President.”
As recalled by minister James Robison in a telephone conversation with Bush, and first reported in the book The Faith of George W. Bush (2004) by Stephen Mansfield.
1990s

"Aggressive Atheism" (28 November 2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjO4duhMRZk
2009

"Off the Page: Martin Amis" (2003)
Context: I once wrote, in The Information, that an Englishman wouldn't bother to attend a reading even if the author in question was his favorite living writer, and also his long-lost brother — even if the reading was taking place next door. Whereas Americans go out and do things. But Meeting the Author, for me, is Meeting the Reader. Some of the little exchanges that take place over the signing table I find very fortifying: they make up for some of the other stuff you get.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 284.

“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.”
Book I, lines 361-362
See also "One of our poets (which is it?) speaks of an everlasting now", Robert Southey, The Doctor, chap. xxv. p. 1
Davideis (1656)