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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. read more
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
Know how to live the time that is given you.
Know how to live the time that is given you.
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your read more
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven
for the lazy, but we allow eight read more
Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven
for the lazy, but we allow eight to no one.
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of read more
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.
Laurel crowned Horatius
True, how true the saying,
Swift as wind flies over us
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Laurel crowned Horatius
True, how true the saying,
Swift as wind flies over us
Time devouring, slaying.
[Lat., Lauriger Horatius
Quam dixisti verum;
Fugit curo citius
Tempus edax rerum.]