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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite
At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.
Lost time is never found again.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
You may delay, but time will not.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.