A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814
Archive
Quotes
The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984