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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day
We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Feminists want to be treated as equals, but at the same time they want special treatment.
This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.