There is, sir, a critical minute in
Every man's wooing, when his mistress may
Be won, which if he carelessly neglect
To prosecute, he may wait long enough
Before he gain the like opportunity. [ Marmion ]

There is a critical minute for all things. [ Proverb ]

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]

Upright, whether in prosperous or in critical circumstances. [ Motto ]

The surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries. [ La Bruyère ]

Carried away by the irresistible influence which is always exercised over men's minds by a bold resolution in critical circumstances. [ Guizot ]

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult, - whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water, - which afterwards subside into cheerful peace. [ George Eliot ]

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. [ Emerson ]

In some exquisite critical hints on Eurythmy. Goethe remarks, that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story. And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]