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“Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.”
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“I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.”
Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.”
Source : Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”, p.11
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“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.”
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“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”
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“Solve a real problem and the world is yours.”
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“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”
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“Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.”
Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.19, Transaction Publishers
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“The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it.”
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“The problem with quotes on the internet is it is hard to verify their authenticity”
