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- Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
- Charlotte P Gilman
- As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity.
- Matthew Ryan
- 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.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
- E.B. White
- A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
- Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
- Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.
- Unknown
- Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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