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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?"

~Jane Austen

"Nostalgia is a seductive liar."

~George W. Ball

"You must have been warned about letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are only golden because we let them slip by."

~Sir James Matthew Barrie
(1860—1937)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

~Napoleon Bonaparte I

"It's only forever, it's not long at all."

~David Bowie

"You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

~Albert Camus

"There is a time for all things, and a time to end all things."

~Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

"The palest ink is better than the best memory."

~Chinese proverb

"You're only immortal until you're thirty."

~Tien Chiu

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

"Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit."
Often it is not even advantageous to know what will be.

~Marcus Tullius Cicero
(ca. 106—43 BCE)

"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."

~Benjamin Disraeli

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

~George Elliot

"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."

~Euripides

"Time spent pondering your world view is time not spent viewing the world."

~Dave as Father Dog on nlist

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

~Galileo

"Man learns from history that man learns nothing from history."

~Hegel

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold onto."

Tao Te Ching

~Lao-tse

"There is an end to all things, no matter how much we want to hold on to them."

~Robert McCammon

"However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time."

~Peter Quennell

"The only thing of which we can be sure—time passes—everything else is vanity."

"Sea Without a Shore"

~Sean Russell
writer

"I'm tired of reading about history. I want to make it."

~Mario Salvio

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

~Jean-Paul Sartre

"Non ille diu vixit, sed diu fuit."
He did not live a long time, but he lasted a long time.

"Ante senectutem curavi ut bene virerem; in senectute curo ut bene moriar."
Before old age I gave care to living a good life; in old age I give care to dying well.

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(ca. 4 BCE—65 CE)

"Youth is wasted on the young."

~George Bernard Shaw

"Our youth now loves luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for older people, children nowaday are tyrants... they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."

~Socrates
(469—399 BCE)

"Realize deeply
that the present moment
is all you ever have."

~Eckhard Tolle

"Immortality is a rose with a thousand thorns."

"I always knew that I would look back at the times I cried and laugh, but never did I guess that I would look back at the times that I laughed and cry."

"You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

~Unknown

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit."
Perhaps one day even this will be pleasant to remember.

~Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)

"Time, more than ritual, heals the wound."

"From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society" ch.7 sect.3

~Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

"As the Apostle Paul so succinctly put it, 'All things are possible, but not all things are expedient'."

~Larry Wall
designer of Perl

"First things first, but not necessarily in that order."

~Dr. Who

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

"The Glass Menagerie"

~Tennesse Williams

"While there is time, Let's go out and do everything."

"The Finer Things"

~Steve Winwood

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

~Lin Yutang

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