Alternate Nights

Famous quotes containing the words alternate and/or nights:

“Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“Time flies like an arrow; the days and nights alternate as fast as a weaver’s shuttle.”
—Chinese proverb.