"Geological time is not money...." - Quote by Mark Twain
Geological time is not money.
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“I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.”
“Sacred cows make the best hamburger.”
“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.”
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“Memories just get richer with time.”
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
“Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.”
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“How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.”
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
“My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.”