 Quotes about time
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- "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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