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Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

by Bud Abbott (Actor, American , born in 1897) keywords: great, hear, help, home, just, love, passing, sitting, time , way

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

by Roger Babson (Educator, American , born in 1875) keywords: enjoy, future, good, him, his, none, present, waste , would

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

by Faith Baldwin (Novelist, American , born in 1893) keywords: alterations , time

James M. Barrie

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

by James M. Barrie (Playwright, British , born in 1860) keywords: against, because, been, golden, hours, letting, must, only, slip, some, them , warned

Henry Ward Beecher

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

by Henry Ward Beecher (Clergyman, American , born in 1813) keywords: century, common, next, philosophy , sense

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

by Ambrose Bierce (Journalist, American , born in 1842) keywords: day, hours, misspent, mostly, period , twenty-four

Dion Boucicault

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

by Dion Boucicault (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1822) keywords: killing, kills, men, quietly, talk, them, time , while

You can never plan the future by the past.

by Edmund Burke (Statesman, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: future, never, past , plan

The best prophet of the future is the past.

by George Byron (Poet, Scottish , born in 1788) keywords: future, past , prophet

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

by Charles Caleb Colton (Writer, English , born in 1780) keywords: away, day, done, every, little, may, men, most, much, patches, produces, shreds, those, throw, time , which

The time I kill is killing me.

by Mason Cooley (Writer, American , born in 1927) keywords: kill, killing , time

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

by Henry Austin Dobson (Poet, English , born in 1840) keywords: ah, alas, go, goes, say, stays , time

Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: eternity, got, just, new , theory

Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: comes, enough, future, never, soon , think

Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: everything, happen, once, only, reason , time

William Faulkner

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

by William Faulkner (Novelist, American , born in 1897) keywords: being, clicked, clock, clocks, come, dead, does, life, little, long, off, only, slay, stops, time , wheels

Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again.

by Benjamin Franklin (Politician, American , born in 1970) keywords: again, found, lost, never , time

Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin (Politician, American , born in 1970) keywords: money , time

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