Famous quotes containing the word watches:
“In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
A gentle facethe face of one long dead
Looks at me from the wall,”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18091882)
“One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“[Tolstoy] discoveredand certainly never realized his discoveryhe discovered a method of picturing life which most pleasingly and exactly corresponds to our idea of time. He is the only writer I know of whose watch keeps time with numberless watches of his readers.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)