quotes about time passing too fast

I think the world is run by C students. ~Al McGuire



No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50



The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. ~Erma Bombeck



And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. ~Bill Bryson



Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. ~Goethe



Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on! ~Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842, translated from Russian (above is combination of translations by Bernard Guildert Guerney, Richard Peaver, and Larisa Voloklonsky)



History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate



Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. ~Shoseki



Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel



The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. ~Colette



Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger



It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. ~Horace It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words. ~Sallust



Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner



You have to wake up a virgin each morning. ~Jean-Louis Barrault



To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ~Schumann



They are fair resting-places for the dear weary dead on their way up to heaven. ~Joaquin Miller (clouds)



When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. ~George Raveling



Untold suffering seldom is. ~Franklin P. Jones



As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. ~Mel Brooks