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  In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
 ~old time sayings by Thomas Carlyle

  Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
 ~inspirational sayings about Summer quotes by Ada Louise Huxtable

  I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
 ~old time quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse

  One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore... and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
 ~famous quotes about Bores by John Updike, Assorted Prose

  Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.
 ~old time sayings by Author Unknown

  A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
 ~old time sayings by George Moore

  Life's a waste of time, time's a waste of life so let's all get wasted and have the time of our life.
 ~inspirational sayings about Alcohol quotes by Author Unknown

   If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
 ~old time quotes by Alan Kay

  When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
 ~famous quotes about Government by Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966

  To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
 ~old time sayings by Emily Dickinson

  If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden
 ~old time sayings by Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

  We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
 ~inspirational sayings about Carpe Diem quotes by George M. Adams

  The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
 ~old time quotes by David Mamet

  It takes a lot of caution, work and guts to make a fortune, and ten times as much to hang on to it.
 ~famous quotes about Wealth by

  If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
 ~old time sayings by Josh Billings

   I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
 ~old time sayings by Louis Agassiz

   Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
 ~good sayings about Conformity by Margaret Mitchell

   A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women.
 ~old time quotes by Author Unknown

   So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
 ~motivational quotes about Love sayings by John Milton

   Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
 ~old time sayings by Laurence J. Peter

   The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.
 ~old time sayings by Francis Thompson

   For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.
 ~good sayings about Art by William McElcheran

   The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.
 ~old time quotes by Henry Miller

   If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains.
 ~motivational quotes about Self-Discovery sayings by Swimming with Sharks, 1994, written & directed by George Huang, spoken by the character Buddy Ackerm

   Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.
 ~old time sayings by Ramona C. Carroll

   Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
 ~old time sayings by Zen Buddhist Proverb

   Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
 ~good sayings about Compliments by George Moore

   Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted
 ~old time quotes by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Flower, Fruit, and Thorn

   Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
 ~motivational quotes about American football sayings by Doug Plank

   By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
 ~old time sayings by Robert Frost

   I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.
 ~old time sayings by William Hazlitt

   Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
 ~good sayings about Television by Ann Landers

   History: gossip well told.
 ~old time quotes by Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

   War hath no fury like a noncombatant.
 ~motivational quotes about War sayings by Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

   Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
 ~old time sayings by Richard Bach

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