Present Day Eastern

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

    “Present mirth hath present laughter
    What’s to come is still unsure.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
    For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be’s.
    The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
    Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)