The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987
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We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCMy stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844