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- This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The American Scholar, August 31, 1837
- Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
- Robert Byrne
- Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Rodin (1840 - 1917)
- What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
- Scottish Proverb
- People find life entirely too time-consuming.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
- Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.
- Swatch, Always Now, 1997
- Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
- Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
- I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard II, Act V, sc. 5
- Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LX
- Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XII
- Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act II, sc. 3
- Ruin has taught me to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LXIV
- Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, sc. 2
- The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 5
- The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act V, sc. 1
- Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd
As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly,
Grasps in the comer. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Pericles, Act II, sc. 3
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