“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
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“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
“A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.”
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”
“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.”
“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.”
“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.”
“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.”
“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.”
“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”
“If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.”
“Time is money.”
“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.”
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”
“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”