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Quotes of the Day for 13 March 2004 - Time

On this day in 1884 the International Prime Meridian Conference established a system of standard time zones. Before that, every town observed local time, based on noon being when the sun was highest in the sky. Railroad schedules were a nightmare to prepare. So the 25 nations assembled at Washington City brought order to our clocks. Here, then, are some quotes on time.

You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
     - Bonnie Prudden

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
     - Henry Van Dyke

Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)
     - Horace, 65 - 8 BC

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
     - Jean de La Bruyere

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock;
My thoughts are minutes.
     - William Shakespeare, Richard II

When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike.
     - German proverb

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