“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”
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“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.”
“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.”
“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
“I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”
“Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.”
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”
“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.”
“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.”
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.”
“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.”
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”
“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.”
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
“Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.”
“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.”
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
“Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.”
“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.”
“In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.”
“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”
“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”