Famous quotes containing the words present and/or day:
“I dont suppose theres a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. Theres youth to the amount of eight hundred pound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. Id take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among em as nothing should equal it!”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“The greatest waste of time he knew of was to count the hourswhat good can come of it?and the greatest illusion in the world, to lead ones day by the sound of the clock, and not by precepts of common sense and understanding.”
—François Rabelais (14941553)