Arnold Bennett quote: "The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions."

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be...
ARNOLD BENNETT

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the mag...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows...
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It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a...
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The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's var...
ARNOLD BENNETT

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Al...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world...
ARNOLD BENNETT

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv...
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The g...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret func...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
ARNOLD BENNETT

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...
ARNOLD BENNETT

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission
ARNOLD BENNETT

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must b...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and supe...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the...
ARNOLD BENNETT

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "T...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of av...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to l...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan
ARNOLD BENNETT

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
ARNOLD BENNETT

A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
ARNOLD BENNETT

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to li...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the...
ARNOLD BENNETT

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
ARNOLD BENNETT

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufact...
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and supe...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
ARNOLD BENNETT

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient...
ARNOLD BENNETT

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and on...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an...
ARNOLD BENNETT

...a life in which conduct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that con...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the nex...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and...
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served i...
ARNOLD BENNETT

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its fo...
ARNOLD BENNETT

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv...
ARNOLD BENNETT

In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought thi...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memor...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The moment you're born you're done for.
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top
ARNOLD BENNETT

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is ser...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Good taste is better than bad taste but bad taste is better than no taste
ARNOLD BENNETT

All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do
ARNOLD BENNETT

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation on...
ARNOLD BENNETT

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You canno...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like
ARNOLD BENNETT

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's vari...
ARNOLD BENNETT

A sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various acti...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long e...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
ARNOLD BENNETT

The price of justice is eternal publicity
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entir...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The moment you're born you're done for.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it lo...
ARNOLD BENNETT

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one...
ARNOLD BENNETT

I'm not ruthless. It's common sense that's ruthless.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ENOCH ARNOLD BENNETT

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
THOMAS ARNOLD BENNETT

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's eco...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

The road to success is always under construction.
ARNOLD PALMER

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, bu...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
ARNOLD PALMER

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
ARNOLD PALMER

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
ARNOLD PALMER

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular f...
MALCOLM ARNOLD

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep...
MALCOLM ARNOLD

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there ...
MALCOLM ARNOLD

I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I d...
ARNOLD PALMER

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it t...
EBERHARD ARNOLD

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
EDDY ARNOLD

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, no...
EDDY ARNOLD

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs aga...
EDDY ARNOLD

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
EDDY ARNOLD

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
EDDY ARNOLD

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

I'll be back.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each...
ARNOLD NEWMAN

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put al...
ARNOLD NEWMAN

The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he wor...
ARNOLD NEWMAN

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
EVE ARNOLD

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

The winners at the Olympics step up, bursting with pride, because everything that they have worked f...
ARNOLD PALMER

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possi...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the sa...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny...
ARNOLD PALMER

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE

Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge...
ARNOLD PALMER

As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, 'Just remember something. You don...
ARNOLD PALMER

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
ARNOLD PALMER

If it bleeds, we can kill it.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent...
GEORGE ARNOLD

Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choo...
EDWIN ARNOLD

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your...
OREN ARNOLD

Dear God,
I pray for patience.
And I want if RIGHT NOW!
OREN ARNOLD

Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a ...
OREN ARNOLD

Dear God, I pray for patience.And I want if RIGHT NOW!
OREN ARNOLD

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kin...
OREN ARNOLD

Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

Money doesn't make happiness, it buys it already made.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like tha...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy.
THOMAS ARNOLD

Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.
ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a gr...
ARNOLD PALMER

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion fr...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the c...
ARNOLD GLASGOW

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great acc...
ARNOLD GLASGOW

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your...
ARNOLD PALMER

You must play boldly to win.
ARNOLD PALMER

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying;...
ARNOLD PALMER

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
ARNOLD PALMER

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

The future is the past returning through another gate.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun...
THOMAS ARNOLD

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to mak...
THOMAS ARNOLD

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD

What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduc...
THOMAS ARNOLD

Make your life a mission-not an intermission.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God
EBERHARD ARNOLD

You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked ...
EBERHARD ARNOLD

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, ...
THOMAS ARNOLD

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person ...
EBERHARD ARNOLD

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
ARNOLD BAX

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're no...
ARNOLD GLASGOW

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
EBERHARD ARNOLD

The living need charity more than the dead.
GEORGE ARNOLD

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say onl...
ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life ...
THOMAS ARNOLD

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
THOMAS ARNOLD

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

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