The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.