Double Ten Day

Famous quotes containing the words ten day, double, ten and/or day:

    “Ten days that shook the world.”
    —John Reed (1887–1920)

    “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.”
    —Korean proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)

    “You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)