Community Corner
It's About Time: Some Choice Quotes
With Daylight Saving Time forced upon us, we gathered some quotes about time.
Is this the best of times or the worst of times? Either way, t's time-adjustment time. Daylight-saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, as we shove our clocks ahead by an hour. Or, if you're reading this on Sunday, the shoving likely has happened already.
People know the routine about changing clocks on the wall, on the bedside table and everywhere else. They know about replacing batteries in smoke alarms. We're not going to go there. Oops, we just did.
Instead, we are sharing some quotes that lend perspective and levity regarding our collective obsession about time. There are a lot of them available from throughout history. We chose the following ones after our search ended suddenly, with the realization that we had to move ahead one hour and didn't have all the time in the world. We hope you enjoy them.
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"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." — Golda Meir
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." — Albert Einstein
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"Lost time is never found again." — Benjamin Franklin
"Time is but the stream I go-a-fishing in." — Henry David Thoreau
"Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side." — The Talmud
"Time is making fools of us again." — J.K. Rowling
"Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of the blanket and have a longer blanket." — Attributed to "an old Indian" when told the reason for daylight-saving time.
"Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated by a watch." — Jane Austen
"At the back end of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves." — Robertson Davies
Daylight Saving Time ends this year on Nov. 4.
Do you have a favorite from the above? Share your thoughts about time and the autumn and spring rituals of setting clocks in the space below.
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