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Time is the only critic without ambition.

It bothers me that I won’t live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.