Saving Time Quotes

• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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• The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Simple, Saving, Problem

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• The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

  Peter Cochrane

  Two, People, World

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• Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

  Michael Ende

  Heart, Monotonous Life, Humans

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• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Saving, Enjoy

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.11, NYU Press

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• Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

  Ellen Goodman

  Time, Saving, Primacy

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Time, Compelling Reason

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

  Ed Markey

  Daylight, Saving, Feels

  "Bill Would Extend Daylight-Savings" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2005.

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• Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.

  David Letterman

  Spring, Fall, Bed

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• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Running, Time

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.28, Graphic Arts Books

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• I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

  Oscar Wilde

  Talking, Argument

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Light, Should Have

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• The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Simple, Trying, Saving

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• I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Blue, Hands

  "The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks". Book by Robertson Davies, 1947.

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• An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Autumn, Night

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• The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  F. H. Bradley

  Running, Long, Entrepreneur

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• Yesterday was not only daylight saving time, but also International Women's Day. What better way to address the issue of inequality for women than giving them a day that's missing an hour.

  David Letterman

  Yesterday, Issues, Giving

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• Saving time = wasting time.

  Behdad Sami

  Saving, Wasting Time

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• We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Time, Choices, Saving

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• People today are too concerned about saving time and having convenience.

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  People, Saving, Today

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• The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Confused, Humor

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