A Quote by Wilson Mizner

The first hundred years are the hardest.

Wilson Mizner

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Wilson Mizner
American - Dramatist
May 19, 1876 - April 3, 1933

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Wilson Mizner

The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.

Wilson Mizner

A Hundred Years From Now Well a hundred years from now I won't be crying A hundred years from now I won't be blue And my heart would have forgotton she broke ever vow I won't care a hundred years from now Oh, it seem like yesterday you told me You couldn't live without my love somehow Now that you're with another it breaks my heart somehow I won't care a hundred years from now * Refrain Now do you recall the night sweetheart you promised Another's kiss you never would allow That's all in the past dear it didn't seem to last I won't care a hundred years from now * Refrain

Lester Flatt

Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid the bleaching bones of the dead: for four hundred years the sharks followed the scurrying ships; for four hundred years America was strewn with the living and dying millions of a transplanted race; for four hundred years Ethiopia stretched forth her hands unto God.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.

Austin Carlile

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

Philipp Meyer

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Derek Landy

The first twelve years are the hardest.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

Patrick Ness

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

Michel de Montaigne

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

Antonio Porchia

About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

Sabine Baring-Gould

The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.