Time

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  • Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
        Anne Michaels   Best?
  • Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
        John Singer Sargent   Best?
  • We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
        Colley Cibber   Best?
  • It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
        Thomas Hobbes   Best?
  • The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
        Plato   Best?
  • When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
        Nicole Kidman   Best?
  • They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Let the punishment match the offense.
        Cicero   Best?
  • I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
        E.B. White   Best?
  • Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I feel like a million tonight --- but one at a time.
        Mae West   Best?
  • It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
        Judith Rossner   Best?
  • Let the world go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
        James Bryce   Best?
  • The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
        Unknown   Best?
  • No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
        Robert Southey   Best?
  • We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • We are what we repeatedly do.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
        Slovenian Proverb   Best?
  • Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • Time is the essence which ultimately and inevitably leads us to our doom
        Tino   Best?
  • The biggest problem with being immortal is figuring out when you're wasting time.
        John Alejandro King   Best?
  • And it was this that awed him--the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which, passing life at great speed, both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time.
        Thomas Wolfe   Best?
  • “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
        Oscar Wilde   Best?

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