He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
Oscar Wilde
Related In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day. SOURCE UNKNOWN In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o' clock in the morning, day after day. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after... BRENE BROWN A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week. ED MCBAIN A lot of locals eat lunch every day, ... Some eat three times and others eat five times a week. DEREK BROWN It's so hard to beat a quality team that can give you fits every night (three times in a row). The k... DUSTIN LANZ O you who believe! let those whom your right hands possess and those of you who have not attained to... QURAN I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week. VIKRAM PATEL I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know... MARK RYDELL Once a week i have to do my radio show, 'A State of Trance', usually on Wednesday night. I t... ARMIN VAN BUUREN Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go... THE HOUSTON TIMES The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that... THE TIMES UK You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a cult... Q-TIP I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in ... JOHN BARRYMORE We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So ... CAB CALLOWAY I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock a... JACKIE COOPER Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ELBERT HUBBARD If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I was told ten hours a week, but that's an overestimate. But you do need to go at least once a week,... ISABELLA HODGE I train three, four, five times a week, protein six times a day, resistance training for at least 45... GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE Most of our kids swim at least three or four times a week. HELEN HOULIHAN He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At lea... HAROLD PINTER I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me. DAVID SEDARIS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo... CHARLES DICKENS I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST We go a lot during the summer. At least two, three times a week and once on the weekend. BILL SPENCER There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. Tha... ERNEST HEMINGWAY If you did not laugh at least 3 times in a day, then you have missed the best part of your day SOTONYE ANGA I don't think jobs are at stake for this ballgame. But if you lose it three, four, five times in a r... SONNY LUBICK I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought... OSCAR WILDE I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone ... OSCAR WILDE It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world OSCAR WILDE Because makeup happens in my life as an actor, face wash is a key. I use La Mer cleansing gel every ... ERIC STONESTREET I don't think he's got anything to be ashamed about. He did what he could do and he just didn't catc... JAY LINDSEY For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or... PETER FINCH If you were in a skid, Pedro would come in and stop the bleeding at times. He can give you a boost w... NOMAR GARCIAPARRA The last three times that that general has been in combat, when he was leading Marines in Afghanista... PETER PACE Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to gre... ZIG ZIGLAR Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the descripti... JULIE BURCHILL We turned it over five times in a row in the third quarter and they were uncontested turnovers. You ... LARRY MIKESELL Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affl... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi... AULIQ ICE He was really dedicated. One time when he was late to practice, like three or five minutes late, and... DAVID SAUNDERS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING I think we lost a landmark ? because it seems like he?s been here forever. He was an icon ? an icon ... JOE CANZANELLA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a p... SIMON BARNES [He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a chi... THOMAS JEFFERSON When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. OSCAR WILDE Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times. OVID First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ''I believe,'' three times. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE He's proven that he can play very well at times, and he's proven he can play very poorly at times. W... CHAN GAILEY And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open ... ERIKA SLEZAK We have coaches here every night, but the swimmers are only required to be here three times a week. JENNE CASTELLINI He would literally come every day --I had a day off and weekends and stuff -- and pick me up early i... JOSH LUCAS I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats a... REBA MCENTIRE Life is a journey of faces. Each face sees a new group of people changing the face of life and livin... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And I had lent my watch last night to one
That dines to-day at the sheriff's. BEN JONSON They'd want to get fresh milk, so it would be nothing to be on the lake and there's a cow on a boat.... DON LANE The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling... PAT BROWN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit do... ANNE LAMOTT It's a sign of the times. You only have to look at the changes to the Australian Schoolboys line-ups... EDDIE JONES You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o... J. D. SALINGER We saw it all spring and have seen it in the [regular] season. We must have seen it happen six or se... BOB MELVIN When the week begins, think of how you will end it. When the week ends, think of how you did begin i... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest. HENRY DAVID THOREAU Food is a huge passion of mine, and because I want to eat whatever I want, I run every morning, and ... MATT BARR I do shop here at Brentano's. I come to the mall probably two or three times a week. KYLE MARTIN Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes
to bed at night and in betwee... BOB DYLAN What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in betwee... BOB DYLAN I rearrange furniture at home all the time, at least three or four times a year. It gets boring if y... LILLIE WHITE You know, a soap opera - you watch it every day, and nothing changes, STEPHEN HARPER Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times. CAB CALLOWAY Be not be discourage by the rejections. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done wi... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Do not be discourage by people who reject your true purpose. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop be... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A judge is not supposed to know anything about the facts of life until they have been presented in e... LORD CHIEF JUSTICE PARKER Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL The last five days before the opener, we didn't get after it. We did not have a lot of at-bats in th... DEAN TREANOR Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in day out Success is the not the thing we will fi... AAMIR SARFRAZ (AAMIR RAJPUT KHAN)
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