Famous quotes containing the words day, time and/or trials:
“On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, third edition (1987)
“Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!!!”
—Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
“All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)