Famous quotes containing the words times, alternately and/or upright:
“Seven times tried that judgment is
That did never choose amiss.
Some there be that shadows kiss,
Such have but a shadows bliss.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“It was a comfort in those succeeding days to sit up and contemplate the majestic panorama of mountains and valleys spread out below us and eat ham and hard boiled eggs while our spiritual natures reveled alternately in rainbows, thunderstorms, and peerless sunsets. Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.”
—Plato (c. 428348 B.C.)