When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating. Votes: 1
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Votes: 1
The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians. Votes: 1
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. Votes: 1
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. Votes: 1
history beats in longer periods than a man's heart Votes: 0
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English. Votes: 0
Man is what he reads. Votes: 3 Joseph Brodsky
What is without periods of rest will not endure. Votes: 3 Ovid