A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814
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Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCThe best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688