Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde
8,586

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde
8,503
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. -Bill Cosby
7,864

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte
7,606

Time brings all things to pass.

Aeschylus
7,591
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. -Charles Darwin
7,342

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy
7,264

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy
7,259
The time is always right to do what is right. -Martin Luther King Jr.
6,463

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus
5,816

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles W. Chesnutt
5,614
A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time. -Persian Proverb
4,808

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.

T. S. Eliot
4,437

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne
3,051
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. -Douglas Adams
2,541

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci
2,199

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Charles F. Kettering
1,359
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. -Henri Bergson
1,320

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant
1,092

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire
392
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. -Henry David Thoreau
383

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I
376

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein
358
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
349

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

Henry David Thoreau
337

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles
313
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. -Thomas Sowell
312

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian
308

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. "Legend" means, basically, "bullshit."

Joel Rosenberg
299
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity. -Luciano De Crescenzo
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