Quotes about time

• "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."  Rodin
• "Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair."  Judith Stern
• "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."  Vernon Saunders Law
• "Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been."  Josh Billings
• "We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but by the analogy of experience."  Abraham Lincoln
• "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."  Edward Phelps
• "A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."  J. Robert Oppenheimer
• "It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong."  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour."  Joseph Hall
• "Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy."  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Men like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."  Jean Paul Richter
• "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."  Abraham Lincoln
• "Every crowd has a silver lining."  P.T. Barnum
• "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."  George Santayana
• "The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.  Finley Peter Dunne
• "To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.  Charles Caleb Colton
• "Study the past if you would divine the future.  Confucius
• "Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."  Theodore Roosevelt
• "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be 21 I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.  Mark Twain
• "Among mortals second thoughts are wisest."  Euripides
•  "Busy souls have no time to be busybodies."  Austin O'Malley
• "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."  Samuel Johnson
• "If you're there before its over, you're on time.  James J. Walker
• "We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."  May Lamberton Becker
• "Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time."  Isabelle Adfani
• "To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven."  Ecclesiastes 3:1
• "Yesterday is a cancelled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, today is cash...Spent it wisely."
• "Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside."  Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done.
• "Time flies"
• "Time flies when you're having fun."
• "Times fun when you're having flies."  Kermit the Frog
• "The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour."  Japanese proverb
• "It's always when thing happen that we have no time to record them."  Sylvia Ashton-Warner 

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