“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away”
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst ”
“Time spent with cats is never wasted ”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life ”
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions”
“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”
“A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world”
“To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement”
“We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it”
“America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks”
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough”
“Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose”
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity”
“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live”
“Liberality consists rather in giving reasonably than much”
“The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.”
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”
“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things”
“One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough”