Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Topic
The collection refuses comfort. Bennett: we have always had all the time there is, and we never shall have more. Shaw on social questions as a waste of good attention. Lichtenberg's observation that those who never have time do least is the most efficient statement here. Blake's busy bee has no time for sorrow; Leonardo insists that a life well-spent is long. Staël on love as confusion of time — the eternity of its beginning, the impossibility of imagining its end. Herbert: life is half spent before we know what it is. The quotes here are for people who find time a more urgent subject than a comfortable one, and who suspect that the problem is less shortage than misuse.
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments
Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent
Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting
All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time
Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Second to the right, and straight on till morning.
And love is something eternal, it changes its aspect but not its foundation.