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How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss1904–1991
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry van Dyke1852–1933Time Is
- Love
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. [//www.archive.org/download/littlemasterpiec00fran/littlemasterpiec00fra
- Money
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense, This famous statement has produced many paraphrases and variants:
- Education
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.
Dr. Seuss1904–1991
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something⁠—something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance⁠—did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
- Technology
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr1885–1962
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Screwtape Letters (1942), Letter XXV
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Besso’s family (March 1955) following the death of Michele Besso, as quoted in Disturbing the Universe (1979) by Freeman Dyson Ch. 17 “A Distant Mirror”, p. 193
There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin1937–2008
The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much.
Mel Gibsonborn 1956
- Happiness