Quotes

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. - Jacques Barzun
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion Boucicalt
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently. - Anatole France, 1844 - 1924
One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. - Ida Scott Taylor
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too. - Marcus Aurelius
Today on Quotes of the Day: Harland David Sanders was born at Henryville, Indiana on this day in 1890. His father's death six years later led to Harland doing all the cooking for the family. He left school early and led a varied career including street-car conductor, a soldier in China at sixteen, a railroad fireman, justice of the peace (after a correspondence course in law), he operated an Ohio River ferry line, sold insurance, and operated a service station. At the service station, he fed hungry travelers in his quarters above the station. When the food proved more popular than auto…
Megan McArdle: I am not fighting for the Bush tax cuts; I'm fighting the notion that people who are in favor of tax cuts are all a bunch of liars or loonie tunes. Politicians in favor of tax cuts are all liars, as are all the politicians against tax cuts; in politics, lying is, sadly, the stable equilibrium. But most politicians are not loons; and most of their economics advisors are sober and intelligent fellows. Now that's funny.
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle. - Huey Long
Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple. - Kevin R. Hutson
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If by the time we are 60 we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose. - John Cowper Powys
From Edgar Allen Poe's essay The Imp of the Perverse: We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action. We glow, we are consumed with eagerness to commence the work, with the anticipation of whose glorious result our whole souls are on fire. It must, it shall be undertaken to-day, and yet we put it off until to-morrow; and why? There is no answer, except that we feel perverse, using the word with no comprehension of the principle. To-…