„You never know what you have till you've lost it.“
Quelle: Evermore
Alyson Nöel1
US-amerikanische Autorin 1965Ähnliche Zitate
„You will never have perfect men, Plato says, till you have perfect circumstances.“
— James Anthony Froude, buch The Nemesis of Faith
Confessions Of A Sceptic
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Kontext: You will never have perfect men, Plato says, till you have perfect circumstances. Perhaps a true saying! — but, till the philosopher is born who can tell us what circumstances are perfect, a sufficiently speculative one. At any rate, one finds strange enough results — often the very best coming up out of conditions the most unpromising. Such a bundle of odd contradictions we human beings are, that perhaps full as many repellent as attracting influences are acquired, before we can give our hearts to what is right.
„In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.“
— Euripidés ancient Athenian playwright -480 - -406 v.Chr
Heraclidæ (c 428 BC); quoted by Aristophanes in The Wasps
Quelle: The Children of Herakles
„Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.“
— Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America 1743 - 1826
— Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) Scottish publisher and writer 1802 - 1871
Quelle: Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859), p. 9
„Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.“
— Johann Kaspar Lavater Swiss poet 1741 - 1801
No. 157
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
„Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.“
— Aldous Huxley, buch Schöne neue Welt
Quelle: Brave New World
„They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.“
— A.A. Milne, buch The House at Pooh Corner
Quelle: The House at Pooh Corner
— Dennis Potter English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist 1935 - 1994
Barton incriminates Pringle, who has bullied him, in the crime of destroying the class's daffodil; the daffodil was actually destroyed by Barton himself.
Stand up, Nigel Barton (1965)
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
Quelle: Long Day's Journey into Night (1955), Page 76 (Act 2, Scene 1)
„You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.“
— George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House
O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
1910s
Quelle: Heartbreak House
— Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997
As quoted http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=189 in Mother Teresa's Reaching Out In Love - Stories told by Mother Teresa http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=tdyw409qGgQC&q=ocean#search_anchor, Compiled and Edited by Edward Le Joly and Jaya Chaliha, Barnes & Noble, 2002, p. 122
2000s
Kontext: I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.
— Carole King, buch A Natural Woman
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (1967), Co-written with Gerry Goffin and Jerry Wexler, first recorded by Aretha Franklin
Song lyrics, Singles
„Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
A friend is never known till a man have need.“
— John Heywood English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs 1497 - 1580
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)
Original: (lb) Proue thy fréende er thou haue néede, but in déede
A fréende is neuer knoen tyll a man haue néede.
