968 private quotes tagged time

“Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.” — H. L. Mencken

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“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Time is money.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.” — Will Rogers

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“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.” — Leo Tolstoy

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

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“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.” — Victor Hugo

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“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

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“I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.” — Steven Wright

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“If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.” — Ray Bradbury

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“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I live in a crazy time.” — Anne Frank

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“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.” — H. G. Wells

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“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.” — Charles M. Schulz

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“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” — Bertrand Russell

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“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

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“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” — George Orwell

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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” — Socrates

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