968 private quotes tagged time

“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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“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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“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.” — Karl Marx

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

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“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.” — Julia Child

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“No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.” — Khalil Gibran

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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.” — Will Rogers

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“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

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“The time I kill is killing me.” — Mason Cooley

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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.” — Marcus Aurelius

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

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“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” — George Carlin

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“We must use time creatively.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.” — H. G. Wells

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“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.” — Benjamin Franklin

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