LIVING FOREVER A contestant in the 1994 Miss America Pageant was asked the question, "If you could live forever, would you and why?" Her answer was an astounding display of logic: "I would not live…
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TIME-CONSUMING ENEMIES One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. -- E.B. White (1899-1985)
KEEPING AHEAD OF IT ALL The old plumber was admonishing his young helper, who was always taking coffee breaks. "When I was an apprentice," he said, "we used to lay the first two lengths of…
TIME WELL SPENT Working as an ordinary hand in a Philadelphia shipyard was a man whose peculiarity was that, while others of his class indulged in merry-making, he was incessantly engaged in studying mechanical combinations.…
EINSTEIN ON RELATIVITY An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove passes like an hour. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein
ENCOURAGED BY CHRONICLES Uncle Billy was an elderly shut-in. One day, his pastor--a young man, still a seminary student, visited him. When the pastor rose to leave, Uncle Billy said, "Pastor, would you read me…
AGELESS QUALITY OF MIND By Cecilia Payne Grove Age is a quality of mind If you have left your dreams behind If hope is lost If you no longer look ahead If ambitions fires are…
TIME IN HELL One day while walking down the street a highly successful executive woman was tragically hit by a bus and she died. Her soul arrived up in heaven where she was met at…
TIME IS FLYING Time is flying never to return. Virgil Georgics III, l. 284 found in Familiar Quotes by John Bartlett, p. 117
SOCRATES & TIME There is nothing more remarkable in the life of Socrates than that he found time in his old age to learn to dance and play on instruments, and thought it time well…
WAS OR WILL BE I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
JUDGING THE HIGHEST MATTERS You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a…
AN ODD DAY On November 19th, 1999, the numerical format was 11-19-1999. All of the digits were odd. The next odd day will be 1-1-3111 - which is well over a thousand years away. Days…
LIFE MOMENTS Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. - - Rose Kennedy
AGE & FAITH Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction. Plato Laws 888, found in…
TIME DEVOURS ALL Time the devourer of all things. Ovid Metamorphoses IV, 428 found in Familiar Quotes by John Bartlett, p. 129
FUTILE GLORY How swiftly passes the glory of the world. Thomas A Kempis, Imitation of Christ, bk. I, ch. 3 found in Familiar Quotes by John Bartlett, p. 170
FEEL IT YOURSELF "It's too hard, and life is too short, to spend your time doing something because someone else has said it's important. You must feel the thing for yourself . . ." Isidor…
AGE & TEMPTATIONS In time, you stop worrying about avoiding temptation. As you get older, it starts avoiding you.
TIME IS A CIRCUS Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. -- Ben Hecht, American screenwriter
