Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

It takes a long time to become young.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.