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Time

 Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. 
Wendell Johnson (1906-1965)
 At the end of the day it's only 11:59pm. 
Anonymous
 Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. 
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
 Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment. 
Franz Werfel (1890-1945)
 Constipation is timeless, but diarrhoea waits for no man. 
Anonymous
 For what has been said is just repetition,
What has been said has been said. 
Khakheperraseneb (?-fl c 1900 BCE)
 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. 
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
 How long a minute is depends upon which side of the bathroom door you're on. 
Anonymous
 I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours. 
Les heures sont faictez pour l'homme, et non l'homme pour les heures.
François Rabelais (1494-1553)
 Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly; industriousness makes the hours short and the years long. 
L'ozio rende lente le ore e veloci gli anni. L'operosità rapide le ore e lenti gli anni.
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950)
 In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. 
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
 In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. 
Anonymous
 It doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order. 
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
 Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. 
Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE)
 Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, get wasted all the time and you'll have the time of your life. 
Billy Connolly (1942- )
 Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. 
Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)
 Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life. 
Anonymous
 Most things, except agriculture, can wait. 
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
 Punctuality is the thief of time. 
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
 Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. 
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
 Segal's Law: A man with a watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure. 
Anonymous
 The morning is wiser than the evening. 
Russian proverb
 The night before a day off is better than the day off itself. 
Anonymous
 The speed of time is one second per second. 
Anonymous
 The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. 
Anonymous
 There is a time and a place for everything unless you're trying to park a car. 
Anonymous
 There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. 
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
 There is no future in time travel. 
Anonymous
 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. 
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
 Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. 
Anonymous
 Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. 
Anonymous
 Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. 
Anonymous
 We drift down time clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? 
Tom Stoppard (1937- )
 We exchange time for objects, in hopes of gaining something that will endure. 
Anonymous
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