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

"You may delay, but time will not."
Benjamin Franklin

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."
Benjamin Disraeli

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
C. S. Lewis

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

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
Carl Sandburg

"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn."
Delmore Schwartz

"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."
Dion Boucicault

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
Doug Larson

"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."
Dean Acheson

"The Present is a Point just passed."
David Russell

"You can never plan the future by the past."
Edmund Burke

"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."
Faith Baldwin

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
George Bernard Shaw

"As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!"
Henry David Thoreau

"Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go."
Henry Austin Dobson

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
Henry David Thoreau

"A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours."
John B. Priestly

"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."
James M. Barrie

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