#times

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#few #first #get #glass #i

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time. ↗

— Idries Shah

#beliefs #believe #come #illustrative #in the past

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I’m introduced to one, I wish I thought “What Jolly Fun! ↗

— Walter Alexander Raleigh

#times #love

Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shown Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken. (from When the Splendor Falls by Laurie McBain) ↗

— Thomas Moore

#reflection-on-happier-times #remembering-loved-ones #love

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#computer #down #expressions #feared #modern

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less. ↗

— Richard Armour

#eating #help #helping #less #more

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. ↗

— Aristotle

#ideas #make #nor #number #once

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#i #i write #know #more #move

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. ↗

— Jane Austen

#boast #carelessness #deceitful #humility #indirect

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ↗

— Jane Austen

#handsomer #happens #she #sometimes #ten