Famous quotes containing the words day, time and/or trials:
“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
—Jean Cocteau (18891963)
“There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work time does not enter, he said to himself, It shall be perfect in all respects, though I should do nothing else in my life.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“All trials are trials for ones life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)