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Category: Time and Passing

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1. "History: An illusion caused by the passage of time."

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Other categories: History and Nations

2. "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

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3. "Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Other categories: Life and Death

4. "Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

Anita Brookner, "The Misalliance"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Youth and Age

5. "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

L.P. (Leslie Poles) Hartley, "The Go-Between"

6. "Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."

André Bazin, "What is Cinema?"

Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Various

7. "You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side."

William Ewart Gladstone, speech to the House of Commons

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

8. "People who are lonely are those who do not know what to do with the time when they are alone."

Quentin Crisp

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

9. "Live today for tomorrow it will all be history."

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10. "The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."

Horace, "Epistles"

Other categories: Youth and Age

11. "As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed."

William Gibson

12. "Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."

Michael Landon

13. "In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age, one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed."

Albert Einstein, "Letter to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium"

Other categories: Youth and Age

14. "Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back."

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15. "Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."

Horace

Other categories: Happiness

16. "Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

Paul Gauguin

Other categories: Life and Death

17. "Time is the only critic without ambition."

John Steinbeck

Other categories: Art and Culture

18. "About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

Herbert Hoover

19. "Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Woman and Man

20. "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."

William Gibson

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21. "Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Other categories: Life and Death

22. "Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

Francis Bacon

Other categories: Happiness -:- Life and Death

23. "The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Success and Fame

24. "Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals."

Henry Louis Mencken

Other categories: Law and Crime -:- Manners and Ethics

25. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."

Andy Warhol

Other categories: Success and Fame

26. "The word "tomorrow" was invented for indecisive people and for children."

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, "Andrei Kolosov"

27. "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."

Franklin P. Jones

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

28. "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

29. "Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

Oscar Wilde

30. "Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

Thomas Carlyle, "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays"

Other categories: Oration and Silence

31. "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."

Niels Bohr

32. "Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow."

Franz Grillparzer, "Libussa"

33. "Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed."

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"

34. "Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end. "

Multatuli (Eduard Douwer Dekker), "The Oyster and the Eagle"

Other categories: Life and Death

35. "The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

Frank Lloyd Wright, "The Living City"

Other categories: Optimism and Hope

36. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare.""

C. Northcote Parkinson

Other categories: Work and Laziness

37. "American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe."

Harold Rosenberg, "The Tradition of the New"

Other categories: History and Nations

38. "Punctuality is the soul of business."

Thomas C. Haliburton, "Sam Slick?s Wise Saws"

39. "We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."

Roald Dahl

Other categories: Work and Laziness

40. "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Frank Zappa, "The Real Frank Zappa Book"

Other categories: Art and Culture

41. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Power and Weakness

42. "Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

Natalie Clifford Barney

Other categories: Pain and Tears

43. "Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be — like the reality of yesterday — an illusion tomorrow."

Luigi Pirandello, "Six Characters in Search of an Author"

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

44. "Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."

Ingmar Bergman

Other categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Life and Death

45. "The future is a better key to the present than the past."

James Graham Ballard

46. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

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Other categories: Optimism and Hope

47. "Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look."

James Burke

48. "It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. "

André Dubus

Other categories: Various -:- Reality and Imagination

49. "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

Other categories: Life and Death

50. "The future is much like the present, only longer."

Dan Quisenberry

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