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Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Time is bunk.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Time is money.

Time is money.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock, for when it is once passed there is no recalling it.

Time is the chrysalis of eternity.

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.

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

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Time is the measure of business as money is of wares; and business is bought at a dear hand where there is small despatch. The Spartans and Spaniards have been noted to be of small despatch, and hence the maxim, Let my death come from Spain; for then it will be long in coming.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future has not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Time is what we want most, but what alas! we use worst.


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