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Time

«Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.»
Author: Horace Mann | About: Reading, Time | Keywords: edge, edge in, fifteen, resolve, sentence
«Some people have the time but they don't have time while others have time but do not have the time.»
Author: Jacques Prevert | About: Funny, Poetry, Time
«Sadness flies away on the wings of time.»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | About: Sadness, Time | Keywords: flies, sadness, The Wings, wings
«Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.»
Author: David Letterman (Comedian, Host) | About: Time | Keywords: overdo, overdoes, overdoing, overdone
«So little time, so little to do»
Author: Oscar Levant (Actor, Composer, Pianist) | About: Time
«Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment»
Author: Pearl Bailey (Entertainer) | About: Time
«Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Time
«Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing»
«So many men, so little time.»
Author: Mae West (Actress) | About: Men, Time
«Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift.»