Time Number

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or number:

“The first time a woman marries she follows her parents’ wishes, but when she marries again she follows her own.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)