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The trouble with being punctual


The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. - Franklin P. Jones

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers, New York Times, Apr. 29, 1930

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - Mark Twain

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. - Plutarch

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. - John Randolph

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F. Kennedy

The sinews of war are infinite money. - Cicero

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing. - Albanian Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks. - Arab Proverb

BACA LAGI 



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