Top 19 Forelock Quotes
#2. Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.
Jonathan Swift
#3. When Phoebe glanced back at the marquess he swiftly lifted that rogue lock of hair, pointed at his forehead and mouthed: Good aim. She clapped a hand over her mouth. Dear God, he was sporting a bruise! So that's where she'd clocked him with his hat! And this explained the forelock.
Julie Anne Long
#4. Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne'er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#5. Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.
William Wordsworth
#6. Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.
Henry David Thoreau
#7. Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock?"
She held up a hand.Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free.
"I'm already annoyed.It won't take much to push me to furious.
Nora Roberts
#8. Zeal and duty are not slow
But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
John Milton
#9. It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
George D. Prentice
#10. Take Time by the forelock.
Thales
#11. Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you.
Armand Hammer
#12. What if they get hostile?" Ember asked. "I have no desire to become a Redshirt.
Bryan Fields
#13. Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.
Alfred Kazin
#14. I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.
Augusten Burroughs
#15. The storm was borne on greenish winds. It began as a coppery taste in the back of one's mouth, a metallic ache that amplified as the clouds darkened and advanced, and when it struck, it was with the flat hand of a senseless fury.
Eleanor Catton
#16. Believe me. I look cool, calm, and collected on the outside - but on the inside, there's a tsunami going on.
Danielle Jamie
#17. I take issue with those who criticize 'The Biggest Loser' for pushing contestants too hard. The whole point is to push them hard. Otherwise, there's no change.
Alison Sweeney
#18. As a rule, people who act lead the most commonplace lives. They are good husbands, or faithful wives, or something tedious...How different Sibyl was! She lived her finest tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
#19. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
Oscar Wilde
