“The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.”
James Jones book From Here to Eternity
Source: From Here to Eternity
“The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.”
James Jones book From Here to Eternity
Source: From Here to Eternity
William Byrd (1543–1623) British composer
Poem: The Faithless Shepherdess http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-faithless-shepherdess/
“Time, you old gipsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?”
Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962) British writer
"Time, You Old Gipsy Man", p. 4.
Poems (1917)
“A day lost at the beginning of project hurts just as much as a day lost at the end.”
Tom DeMarco (1940) American software engineer, author, and consultant
The Deadline (1997).
“How you start your day is how you live your day. How you live your day is how you live your life.”
Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer
Source: Heal Your Body A-Z
Christopher Wood (writer) (1935–2015) English writer
Wood, Christopher. "Terrible Hard", Says Alice. London: Constable. 1970. (chapter 8)
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter V: On the Philosopher’s Mean
Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989) General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party
Source: Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief, p. 25