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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke
English empiricist philosopher (1632 - 1704)

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay
English novelist (1881 - 1958)

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
US novelist (1896 - 1940)

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

Alfred Hitchcock
British movie director (1899 - 1980)

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

J.P. McEvoy

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.

Albert Schweitzer
French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson
(1916 - 1995)

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

Cynthia Nelms

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

Nancy Astor
British politician (1879 - 1964)

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Rita Rudner
US comedian

If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Laurence J. Peter
US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742 - 1799)

What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

Alain

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams
US dramatist (1911 - 1983)

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht
US author & dramatist (1893 - 1964)

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935)

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