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Time

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. – Aristotle

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted. – Aristotle

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. – Margaret Thatcher

Time and tide wait for no man. – Geoffrey Chaucer

The only time I have problems is when I sleep. – Tupac Shakur

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. – Gore Vidal

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. – Elie Wiesel

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. – Rodney Dangerfield

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. – Henry David Thoreau

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! – Tony Robbins

Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. – Lord Chesterfield

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. – Marcus Aurelius

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. – George Bernard Shaw

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. – George Bernard Shaw