Untimely Quotes
29 quotes by 25 authors
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Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth…
— Pope John XXIII
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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen…
— James A. Baldwin
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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in…
— Cyril Burt
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Death lies on her like an untimely frost.
— William Shakespeare
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I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
— William Cowper
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To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make…
— Celia Rivenbark
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Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people…
— Andrew Shue
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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been…
— Chief Seattle
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There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well…
— Jocelyn Murray
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A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
— James A. Baldwin
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A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.
— Angela Carter
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I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.
— Evo Morales
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Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
— William Shakespeare
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but…
— Martine Leavitt
Who Wrote These Untimely Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 29 Untimely Quotes as follows: