date quotes

It immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

-Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg Allen
  On bisexuality. In the NewYork Times,1 Dec.

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

- Basil Bunting
  Briggflatts.

For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain'the sublime' In the old sense.Wrong from the start No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, pt.1.

Yesterday, December 7,1941a date which will live in infamythe United States of America was suddenlyand deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

- Franklin D(elano) Roosevelt
  Address to Congress, 8 Dec, following theJapanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence† We make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.

- Brooks Stevens
Quoted inVance Packard TheWaste Makers (1960), ch.6.This is thought to be the first use of the phrase'planned obsolescence'.

Bankers'genes were Wall St. genes, especially in the big cities. If the banks were conservative just now [1955], it was because bankers still awoke in the middle of the night, trembling and sweaty with thoughts of the Crash. But intimeanewgenerationwouldtake over: ambitious, overcompetitive young men to whom1929 would be merelya date on a page; such menwould sever theroots of memory as if with an ax, not realizing that those tendrils were also the rudder cables.

- Michael M Thomas
  The Ropespinner Conspiracy.

In the South, the war is what is elsewhere: they date from it.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
AD1883  Of theAmerican CivilWar. Life on the Mississippi, ch.45.

Verse thus design'd has no ill fate, If it arrive but at the date Of fading beauty, if it prove But as long-liv'd as present love.

- Edmund Waller
  'Of EnglishVerse'.