Reasonable Time Lines

Famous quotes containing the words reasonable, time and/or lines:

“A reasonable amount o’ fleas is good fer a dog—keeps him from broodin’ over bein’ a dog, mebbe.”
—Edward Noyes Westcott (1847–1898)

“making what’s new
Ill and good, old, for as we die in you,
You die in Time, Time in Eternity.”
—Edward Herbert (1583–1648)

“Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, and become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.”
—Richard Bentley (1662–1742)