Logo
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Life
category

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. – Jim Morrison

Category:
Life

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. – Bruce Crampton

Category:
Life

Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool. – Gioacchino Rossini

Category:
Life

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. – Baker Brownell, The College and the Community, 1952

Category:
Life

Random Quotes

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. – Addison Mizner

Category:
legal

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you cant deal with life, or the truth. – Neal Boortz

Category:
Truth

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! – Robert Walpole

Category:
Patriotism

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may. – Joseph Lancaster

Category:
Knowledge