Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.
Ammon Hennessey
1. "Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
Thomas Carlyle, "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays"
Other categories: Oration and Silence
2. "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
Niels Bohr
3. "Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow."
Franz Grillparzer, "Libussa"
4. "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"
5. "Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end. "
Multatuli (Eduard Douwer Dekker), "The Oyster and the Eagle"
Other categories: Life and Death
6. "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
7. "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
8. "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
9. "Punctuality is the soul of business."
Thomas C. Haliburton, "Sam Slick?s Wise Saws"
10. "We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."
Roald Dahl
Other categories: Work and Laziness
11. "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
12. "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
13. "Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."
Natalie Clifford Barney
Other categories: Pain and Tears
14. "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
15. "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
16. "The future is a better key to the present than the past."
James Graham Ballard
17. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
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Other categories: Optimism and Hope
18. "Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look."
James Burke
19. "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
20. "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
21. "The future is much like the present, only longer."
Dan Quisenberry
22. "We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
23. "There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
Zora Neale Hurston
Other categories: Question and Problem
24. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Andy Warhol, "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol"
Other categories: Work and Laziness
25. "It is said that the present is pregnant with the future."
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
26. "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
Albert Einstein
27. "All the [hours] wound you, the last one kills."
Latin proverb, (inscription on clocks)
Other categories: Inscriptions etc. -:- Pain and Tears
28. "One generation plants trees, another gets the shade."
Chinese proverb
Other categories: Work and Laziness
29. "Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think."
Chinese proverb
Other categories: Life and Death
30. "Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."
Chinese proverb
Other categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Nature and Animals
31. "Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year."
Spanish proverb
Other categories: Work and Laziness
32. "Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?"
Ashleigh Brilliant
33. "Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."
Horace Mann
34. "Time spent with cats is never wasted."
François-René de Chateaubriand
Other categories: Nature and Animals
35. "What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Other categories: Life and Death
36. "Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him."
Herbert Spencer
37. "Money is expensive during the war. Human life is more expensive. And time is the most expensive."
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov
Other categories: Peace and War -:- Richness and Money
38. "Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments."
Ambrose Bierce
39. "Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers."
Douglas Coupland, "Girlfriend in a Coma"
Other categories: Destiny and Fate
40. "The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow."
Ayn Rand
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
41. "Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal."
St. Jerome
Other categories: Human
42. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Key
Other categories: Various
43. "God gave us time so that everything wouldn't happen all at once."
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Other categories: God and Religion
44. "The next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future."
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Other categories: Good and Evil
45. "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
Evelyn Waugh
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
46. "I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week."
Erma Bombeck
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
47. "What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness."
Ivo Andrić
Other categories: Pain and Tears
48. "An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold."
Chinese proverb
49. "Don't worry that there won't be a tomorrow, it's already tomorrow in Australia."
Charles Monroe Schulz
50. "Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Other categories: Life and Death
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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