Present Day Eastern

Famous quotes containing the words present, day and/or eastern:

    “How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “She walks in Beauty, like the night
    Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
    And all that’s best of dark and bright
    Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
    Thus mellowed to that tender light
    Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “The more important the title, the more self-important the person, the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle, the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.”
    —Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 5 (1980)