Quotes about Timeless
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.
— William Faulkner
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations.
— Joseph Brodsky
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
— John Keats
Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
— Billy Graham
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
— William Temple
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A good solid bit of work lasts.
— George Eliot
If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.
— Elton John
A woman's elegance will charm you for days, her beauty will charm you for weeks, her grace will charm you for years, and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime.
— Matshona Dhliwayo