Bygone Days Quotes

• Have you any old grudges you would like to pay, Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day? -Gather them now and lay them away When Christmas comes. Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend, And life is short from beginning to end; Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend When Christmas comes.

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  William Haines Lytle

  Christmas   Life Is Short   One Day  

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• The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

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  David Mamet

  People   Judging   One Day  

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

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  Bob Dylan

  Rocks   Missing   Done  

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.

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  Jo Grimond

  Political   Doubt   One Day  

  Speech at Liberal Party Annual Assembly, 14 Sept. 1963, in Guardian 16 Sept. 1963

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• When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

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  Ogden Nash

  Love   Thinking   One Day  

  Ogden Nash, “The MIDDLe”

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