Time Quotes - Page 27

• Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny Basketball, Originality, Stamps

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• The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Aquariums, Quality

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.391, CUP Archive

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• It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Death, Destiny, Giving

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Night, Light, Giving

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Good Morning, Sleep

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

  Robert Benchley

  Evil, Justice, Waiting

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

  Arnold Bennett

  Procrastination, Next Week, Waiting

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• We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

  Arnold Bennett

  Way, Needs, Planning

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• Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lying, Childhood, Heaven

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• I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

  Josh Billings

  Age, Aging, Hundred

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• I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Long, Looks

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Funny, Business

  "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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• Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Hero, Idols, Time Management

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• Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

  David Brainerd

  Pain, Purpose, Littles

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.246

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• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Pain, Reading, Impossible

  "The Barretts at Hope End: the early diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning".

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• What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Years, Age

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.174

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• What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

  Robert Browning

  Age, Dew, Crystals

  Robert Browning, David Ewbank (2007). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations”, p.106, Ohio University Press

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• Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

  Lenny Bruce

  Sarcasm, Thinking, Giving

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• We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hands, Meditation, Age

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• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  Edmund Burke

  Arrogance Of Youth, Age, Taught

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.107, University of Chicago Press

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  I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

  George Burns

  Inspirational, Life, Future

  George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume

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• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

  Lord Byron

  Age, Twenties, Six

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• It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

  Lord Byron

  Giving, Agitation, Literature

  "Poet of all the passions" by Fiona MacCarthy, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2002.

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• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Birthday, Grieving

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

  Albert Camus

  Police, Law Enforcement, Enough

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.122, Vintage

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