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- Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
- What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time? - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet xxx
- We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
- Charlton Ogburn, "Merrill's Marauders", Harpers Magazine, January 1957
- The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-19-06
- Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
- Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), An Acceptable Time
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
- Henry W. Fowler (1858 - 1933), A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
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