“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”
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time
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“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”
“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”
“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.”
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
“I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.”
“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.”
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”
“There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.”
“For time is the longest distance between two places.”
“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”