Quotes with labor-time

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• The time of life is short: to spend that shortness basely were too long.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

  Frank Romer
   
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• The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

  George Ade
  American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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• The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

  Sydney Justin Harris
  American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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• The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
  

  Speech San Francisco (9 september 1952)

  Adlai Stevenson II
  American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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• The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.

  Henry S. Haskins
  American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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• The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

  Ben Shahn
  Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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• The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

  Epicurus
  Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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• The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

  Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.

  Rod Laver
   
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• The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

  Henry James
  American author (1843 - 1916)
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• The tragedy of our time is that we are so eye centered, so appearance besotted.

  Jessamyn West
  American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it''

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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• The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

  Philip K. Dick
  American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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• The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

  Herb Caen
  American journalist (1916 - 1997)
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• The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

  John Barrymore
  American actor (1882 - 1942)
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• The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.

  George Mikes
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• affirmatively
• time-honored
• bread-sauce
• complicated
• experiments
• born-again

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