Time Trouble

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or trouble:

    “How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “the trouble lies in pointing
    At any stars. For one’s own finger aims
    Always elsewhere: the man beside one seems
    Never to get the point. “No! The bright star
    Just above my fingertip.””
    —John Hollander (b. 1929)