Interval Quotes

• Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

  

  Aristotle
  • Fire
  • Stream
  • Continuous

• An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Dangerous
  • Meditate
  • Corrective

• There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Change
  • Direction
  • Comparing

• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  

  George Santayana
  • Enjoy
  • Cure
  • Interval