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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.
Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.
My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.