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- Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
- George Harrison (1943 - 2001)
- Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), "A Room with a View"
- All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
- I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898), Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
- It's really too bad a lot of crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
- J. D. Salinger (1919 - ), Catcher In the Rye
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
- The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
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