Famous quotes containing the words time and/or act:
“I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won’t. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)