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Father Time
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
by Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (chärlz jŏn hŭfꞋəm dĭkꞋənz) was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport (a part of the city of Portsmouth located on Portsea Island), Hampshire, England. He was a Victorian novelist, and commonly regarded as one of the greatest English writers. He wrote novels including “Pickwick Papers” (1837), “Oliver Twist” (1837 - 1839), “A Christmas Carol” (1843), “David Copperfield” (1849 - 1850), and “Great Expectations” (1860), among other classics. His writings expressed his deep compassion for the poor in Victorian England. Charles John Huffam Dickens passed on at 58 years of age on 18 June 1870 in Higham, Kent, England.
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
by Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (chärlz jŏn hŭfꞋəm dĭkꞋənz) was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport (a part of the city of Portsmouth located on Portsea Island), Hampshire, England. He was a Victorian novelist, and commonly regarded as one of the greatest English writers. He wrote novels including “Pickwick Papers” (1837), “Oliver Twist” (1837 - 1839), “A Christmas Carol” (1843), “David Copperfield” (1849 - 1850), and “Great Expectations” (1860), among other classics. His writings expressed his deep compassion for the poor in Victorian England. Charles John Huffam Dickens passed on at 58 years of age on 18 June 1870 in Higham, Kent, England.
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September
The golden-rod is yellow;
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
The gentian’s bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun.
The sedges flaunt their harvest,
In every meadow nook;
And asters by the brook-side
Make asters in the brook.
From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes’ sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies.
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With Summer’s best of weather,
And Autumn’s best of cheer.
But none of all this beauty
Which floods the earth and air,
Is unto me the secret
Which makes September fair.
’Tis a thing which I remember;
To name it thrills me yet:
One day of one September
I never can forget.
by Helen Hunt Jackson: as published in Lida Brown McMurry and Agnes Spofford Cook, editors: “Songs of the Tree-Top and Meadow” (1899), page 11
Helen Hunt Jackson was born as Helen Maria Fiske on 15 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a writer and a poet. Helen Hunt Jackson passed on at 54 years of age on 12 August 1885 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
The golden-rod is yellow;
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
The gentian’s bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun.
The sedges flaunt their harvest,
In every meadow nook;
And asters by the brook-side
Make asters in the brook.
From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes’ sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies.
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With Summer’s best of weather,
And Autumn’s best of cheer.
But none of all this beauty
Which floods the earth and air,
Is unto me the secret
Which makes September fair.
’Tis a thing which I remember;
To name it thrills me yet:
One day of one September
I never can forget.
by Helen Hunt Jackson: as published in Lida Brown McMurry and Agnes Spofford Cook, editors: “Songs of the Tree-Top and Meadow” (1899), page 11
Helen Hunt Jackson was born as Helen Maria Fiske on 15 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a writer and a poet. Helen Hunt Jackson passed on at 54 years of age on 12 August 1885 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
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The Great Clock
The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hand will stop.
At late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own;
Live, love, toil with a will,
Plan no faith in tomorrow for
The clock may then be still.
Wear today a cheerful face
In everything you do.
The sunshine that you radiate
Will shine right back at you.
Speak today a word of hope
To someone in distress;
When you lift another’s load
You make your burdens less.
Do today a gracious deed
And do it with a smile;
It’s little daily acts like these
That make your life worthwhile.
by Author Unknown
The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hand will stop.
At late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own;
Live, love, toil with a will,
Plan no faith in tomorrow for
The clock may then be still.
Wear today a cheerful face
In everything you do.
The sunshine that you radiate
Will shine right back at you.
Speak today a word of hope
To someone in distress;
When you lift another’s load
You make your burdens less.
Do today a gracious deed
And do it with a smile;
It’s little daily acts like these
That make your life worthwhile.
by Author Unknown
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“Nothing is worth more than this day.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
The Gift of a Day
Every day’s a perfect gift
of time for us to use,
Hours waiting to be filled
in any way we choose.
Each morning brings
a quiet hope
That rises
with the Sun.
Each evening brings
the sweet content
That comes with work
well done.
by Author Unknown
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” -Author Unknown
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So . . . get on your way!
-Doctor Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” (1990)
“The living moment is everything.” -D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
Garth: Do you know what today is?
Heath: No - what is it?
Garth: It is the day after yesterday!
“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.” -Hazel Lee (Hazel Crutcher Lee (1917 - 2006))
“What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.” -Alexandra Stoddard (born 1941)
“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” -May Sarton (pseudonym of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995))
“Remember what was. Anticipate what will be. But live in the moment that lies in between.” -Author Unknown
“Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight David ‘Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)): as quoted in Louis Filler: “The President Speaks: From William McKinley to Lyndon B. Johnson” (1964)
“Act in the precious present.” -Author Unknown
“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.” -Alice Morse Earle (1851 - 1911): “Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights Which Are Here Displayed in Very Truth and Are Morever Regarded As Emblems” (1902)
The Gift of a Day
Every day’s a perfect gift
of time for us to use,
Hours waiting to be filled
in any way we choose.
Each morning brings
a quiet hope
That rises
with the Sun.
Each evening brings
the sweet content
That comes with work
well done.
by Author Unknown
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” -Author Unknown
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So . . . get on your way!
-Doctor Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” (1990)
“The living moment is everything.” -D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
Garth: Do you know what today is?
Heath: No - what is it?
Garth: It is the day after yesterday!
“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.” -Hazel Lee (Hazel Crutcher Lee (1917 - 2006))
“What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.” -Alexandra Stoddard (born 1941)
“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” -May Sarton (pseudonym of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995))
“Remember what was. Anticipate what will be. But live in the moment that lies in between.” -Author Unknown
“Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight David ‘Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)): as quoted in Louis Filler: “The President Speaks: From William McKinley to Lyndon B. Johnson” (1964)
“Act in the precious present.” -Author Unknown
“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.” -Alice Morse Earle (1851 - 1911): “Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights Which Are Here Displayed in Very Truth and Are Morever Regarded As Emblems” (1902)
“Let today be the start of something new.” -Author Unknown
“Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” -Author Unknown
Today
Today is mine. It is unique.
Nobody in the world has one exactly like it.
It holds the sum of all my past experiences and all my future potentials.
I can fill it with joyous moments or ruin it with fruitless worry.
If painful recollections of the past come into my mind,
or frightening thoughts of the future, I can put them away.
They cannot spoil today for me.
by Author Unknown
“Today is a brand new day. My past does not define me. My future is mine to create.” -Author Unknown
“There is only one time that is important - now! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“If not now, when will you begin living your life?” -Jack Borland
“The future depends on what we do in the present.” -Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
“On a day no different than the one now dawning, Leonardo drew the first strokes of the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare wrote the first words of Hamlet, Beethoven began work on his Ninth Symphony, and Einstein discovered the theory of relativity. What are you going to do today?” -Author Unknown
“If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.” -John A. Wheeler (John Archibald Wheeler (1911 - 2008))
“Every day is a gift.” -Author Unknown
“The passing moment is all that we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it . . .” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 -1965))
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day, you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
“I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?” -Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” -Author Unknown: “The Holy Bible” (King James Version, Cambridge Edition (1769)), ‘Psalms,’ Psalm 118, verse 24
Live in the Present
One day at a time
this is enough.
Do not look back
and grieve over the past
for it is gone;
and do not be troubled
about the future
for it has not yet come.
Live in the present
and make it so beautiful
that it will be worth
remembering!
by Author Unknown
“Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953)
“If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.” -Pete Goss (born 1961)
“No day passeth, without something we wish not.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia” (1732), number 3,558
“Never underestimate the value of a day.” -Author Unknown
“What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There’s quite a lot we don’t know about them.” -Melanie Benjamin (pseudonym of Melanie Hauser (born 1962))
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb (born 1956), website www.karenlamb.com
“Make good use of today.” -Author Unknown
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Today
Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.
Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more.
Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the Earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again. Speak it still once again.
by Author Unknown
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“One today is worth two tomorrows.” -Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790): “The Way to Wealth” (1758)
“Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one’s reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.” -S. N. Goenka (Satya Narayan Goenka (1924 - 2013))
“Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” -Author Unknown
Today
Today is mine. It is unique.
Nobody in the world has one exactly like it.
It holds the sum of all my past experiences and all my future potentials.
I can fill it with joyous moments or ruin it with fruitless worry.
If painful recollections of the past come into my mind,
or frightening thoughts of the future, I can put them away.
They cannot spoil today for me.
by Author Unknown
“Today is a brand new day. My past does not define me. My future is mine to create.” -Author Unknown
“There is only one time that is important - now! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“If not now, when will you begin living your life?” -Jack Borland
“The future depends on what we do in the present.” -Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
“On a day no different than the one now dawning, Leonardo drew the first strokes of the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare wrote the first words of Hamlet, Beethoven began work on his Ninth Symphony, and Einstein discovered the theory of relativity. What are you going to do today?” -Author Unknown
“If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.” -John A. Wheeler (John Archibald Wheeler (1911 - 2008))
“Every day is a gift.” -Author Unknown
“The passing moment is all that we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it . . .” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 -1965))
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day, you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
“I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?” -Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” -Author Unknown: “The Holy Bible” (King James Version, Cambridge Edition (1769)), ‘Psalms,’ Psalm 118, verse 24
Live in the Present
One day at a time
this is enough.
Do not look back
and grieve over the past
for it is gone;
and do not be troubled
about the future
for it has not yet come.
Live in the present
and make it so beautiful
that it will be worth
remembering!
by Author Unknown
“Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953)
“If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.” -Pete Goss (born 1961)
“No day passeth, without something we wish not.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia” (1732), number 3,558
“Never underestimate the value of a day.” -Author Unknown
“What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There’s quite a lot we don’t know about them.” -Melanie Benjamin (pseudonym of Melanie Hauser (born 1962))
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb (born 1956), website www.karenlamb.com
“Make good use of today.” -Author Unknown
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Today
Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.
Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more.
Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the Earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again. Speak it still once again.
by Author Unknown
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“One today is worth two tomorrows.” -Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790): “The Way to Wealth” (1758)
“Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one’s reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.” -S. N. Goenka (Satya Narayan Goenka (1924 - 2013))
“Now is all there is.” -Author Unknown
“Day, noun: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.” -Ambrose Bierce (Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914))
“Just for today let us live this one day only, forgetting yesterday and tomorrow, and not trying to solve the whole problem of life at once.” -Joseph F. Newton (Joseph Fort Newton (1878 - 1949))
“No time like the present.” -Mary de la Rivière Manley (also known as Delarivier Manley (1663 - 1724))
“Today is a perfect day to just be happy.” -Author Unknown
“You will never have this day again, so make it count.” -Author Unknown
“As long as the day lasts, let’s give it all we’ve got.” -David O. McKay (David Oman McKay (1873 - 1970))
“One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime.” -Author Unknown
“The past was. Tomorrow may be. Only today is.” -Sonya Friedman
“Our days are like identical suitcases, all the same size, but some can pack into them twice as much as others.” -Author Unknown
“Today . . . spend more time with people who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.” -Author Unknown
“The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.” -Woody Hayes (Wayne Woodrow ‘Woody’ Hayes (1913 - 1987))
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.” -Alice Walker (born 1944)
“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki (Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born 1947))
“Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow.” [English translation]
“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.” [original Latin]
-Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Odes” (23 B.C.E.), book 1, number 11, final line
“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.” -Alexander Woollcott (Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (1887 - 1943))
“Is it today yet?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Right now counts forever.” -R. C. Sproul (Robert Charles Sproul (1939 - 2017)): title of article in “Tabletalk” (May 1977) magazine
“Think that this day will never dawn again.” -Dante Alighieri (about 1265 - 1321)
“There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life big, broad, significant, and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953): “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day” (1918), ‘August Twenty-Eighth’
“Now is the only time anything happens.” -Sylvia Boorstein (born 1936)
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” -Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007): as quoted in “The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association” (1979)
“The man who waits until tomorrow, misses the opportunities of today.” -Author Unknown
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day.”
-A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956)): “Winnie the Pooh” (14 October 1926)
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” -Annie Dillard (born 1945 as Meta Ann Doak): “The Writing Life” (1989)
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph S. Marston, Junior (born 1955))
“Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180))
“There’s only now.” -Bill Murray (William James ‘Bill’ Murray (born in 1950))
This is MFOL! . . . encouraging you to go out today to make great memories . . .
“Day, noun: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.” -Ambrose Bierce (Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914))
“Just for today let us live this one day only, forgetting yesterday and tomorrow, and not trying to solve the whole problem of life at once.” -Joseph F. Newton (Joseph Fort Newton (1878 - 1949))
“No time like the present.” -Mary de la Rivière Manley (also known as Delarivier Manley (1663 - 1724))
“Today is a perfect day to just be happy.” -Author Unknown
“You will never have this day again, so make it count.” -Author Unknown
“As long as the day lasts, let’s give it all we’ve got.” -David O. McKay (David Oman McKay (1873 - 1970))
“One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime.” -Author Unknown
“The past was. Tomorrow may be. Only today is.” -Sonya Friedman
“Our days are like identical suitcases, all the same size, but some can pack into them twice as much as others.” -Author Unknown
“Today . . . spend more time with people who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.” -Author Unknown
“The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.” -Woody Hayes (Wayne Woodrow ‘Woody’ Hayes (1913 - 1987))
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.” -Alice Walker (born 1944)
“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki (Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born 1947))
“Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow.” [English translation]
“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.” [original Latin]
-Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Odes” (23 B.C.E.), book 1, number 11, final line
“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.” -Alexander Woollcott (Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (1887 - 1943))
“Is it today yet?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Right now counts forever.” -R. C. Sproul (Robert Charles Sproul (1939 - 2017)): title of article in “Tabletalk” (May 1977) magazine
“Think that this day will never dawn again.” -Dante Alighieri (about 1265 - 1321)
“There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life big, broad, significant, and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953): “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day” (1918), ‘August Twenty-Eighth’
“Now is the only time anything happens.” -Sylvia Boorstein (born 1936)
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” -Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007): as quoted in “The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association” (1979)
“The man who waits until tomorrow, misses the opportunities of today.” -Author Unknown
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day.”
-A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956)): “Winnie the Pooh” (14 October 1926)
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” -Annie Dillard (born 1945 as Meta Ann Doak): “The Writing Life” (1989)
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph S. Marston, Junior (born 1955))
“Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180))
“There’s only now.” -Bill Murray (William James ‘Bill’ Murray (born in 1950))
This is MFOL! . . . encouraging you to go out today to make great memories . . .
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What time does the clock show?
Before clocks and watches were invented, people planned their days by the rising and setting of the Sun. We continue to use sunrise and sunset as the most obvious reference points in our days.
“The first and original clock or timepiece known to humankind is still all around us even now: the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, and the movements thereof, which creates our days and nights and tides and seasons.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Before clocks and watches were invented, people planned their days by the rising and setting of the Sun. We continue to use sunrise and sunset as the most obvious reference points in our days.
“The first and original clock or timepiece known to humankind is still all around us even now: the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, and the movements thereof, which creates our days and nights and tides and seasons.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Sundials were invented more than 2,000 years ago and were among the first instruments used to tell the time. Small sundials, similar to the one built into the pocket compass shown above, were once very popular, and are still made and available for purchase even now. They require no batteries or winding.
Lessons from a Sundial
Ignore dull days; forget the showers;
Keep count of only shining hours.
by Author Unknown
Lessons from a Sundial
Ignore dull days; forget the showers;
Keep count of only shining hours.
by Author Unknown
After the invention of sundials came hourglasses. Though they do not show the time of day, they do allow people to know when a period of time is up, as the sand finishes pouring out of the top half of the glass into the bottom half. Hourglasses come in different time measures, such as 1 minute, 30 minutes, or 1 hour, and for specific purposes, such as egg timer hourglasses to time the cooking of hard-boiled eggs. Some hourglasses allow users to put in more sand or remove sand to let them to choose how much time will be measured. Hourglasses are even made that contain liquid rather than sand to mark the passage of time.
Sometime in the 1400’s, also referred to as the 15th century, mechanical clocks were invented. The pendulum clock was invented in 1656, and continued as the most accurate clock type until the 1930’s, when quartz oscillators were invented. Digital clocks and wristwatches, and most analog clocks, are now built with quartz oscillators. After World War 2, atomic clocks were invented, and are at present the most accurate timepieces.
To synchronize your computer’s clock with the atomic clock, said to be the world’s most reliable timepiece, visit http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock.
Have you ever noticed that by the time you have finished synchronizing all of your clocks, watches, timers, appliances, and devices, it’s time to start all over again . . .
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does: Keep going.” -Author Unknown
Before 1687, clocks were made with an hour hand only.
Why are the long thin moving parts on clock faces called hands and not fingers? After all, they are long and narrow like fingers, and they do sort of point at the numbers . . .
“Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand?” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
Raymond: What did the big hand say to the small hand on the clock?
Myra: “Can you spare a minute?”
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Clock Song
The hands on the clock
Go round and round,
Round and round, round and round.
The hands on the clock
Go round and round,
To tell us the time.
The short hand on the clock
Goes from number to number,
Number to number, number to number.
The short hand on the clock
Goes from number to number.
To tell us the time.
The long hand on the clock
Goes around by fives,
Around by fives, around by fives.
The long hand on the clock
Goes around by fives.
To tell us the minutes.
by Author Unknown: can be sung to the same tune as that of “Wheels on the Bus”
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“My watch is three hours fast and I can’t fix it, so I’m gonna move to New York.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.
Overheard: Let’s all synchronize our watches.
“My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?” -Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852 - 1917): comment made to a man in the street who was carrying a grandfather clock
Preston: How should you greet a grandfather clock?
Pierce: “Hello, old timer!”
Heloise: What did the digital watch say to the grandfather clock?
Louise: “Look Pops, no hands!”
“Timepiece: An indicator device of the progression of events relative one to another, though in itself holding no sway over them.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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The Sad Tale of Mr. Mears
There was a man who had a clock,
His name was Matthew Mears;
And every day he wound that clock
For eight and twenty years.
And then one day he found that clock
An eight-day* clock to be;
And a madder man than Matthew Mears
You would not wish to see.
by Author Unknown
*An eight-day clock is a clock that is wound once in every eight days.
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“You can’t turn back the clock but you can wind it up again.” -Author Unknown
Riddle: What runs but has no legs?
Solution: A clock.
Sometime in the 1400’s, also referred to as the 15th century, mechanical clocks were invented. The pendulum clock was invented in 1656, and continued as the most accurate clock type until the 1930’s, when quartz oscillators were invented. Digital clocks and wristwatches, and most analog clocks, are now built with quartz oscillators. After World War 2, atomic clocks were invented, and are at present the most accurate timepieces.
To synchronize your computer’s clock with the atomic clock, said to be the world’s most reliable timepiece, visit http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock.
Have you ever noticed that by the time you have finished synchronizing all of your clocks, watches, timers, appliances, and devices, it’s time to start all over again . . .
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does: Keep going.” -Author Unknown
Before 1687, clocks were made with an hour hand only.
Why are the long thin moving parts on clock faces called hands and not fingers? After all, they are long and narrow like fingers, and they do sort of point at the numbers . . .
“Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand?” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
Raymond: What did the big hand say to the small hand on the clock?
Myra: “Can you spare a minute?”
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Clock Song
The hands on the clock
Go round and round,
Round and round, round and round.
The hands on the clock
Go round and round,
To tell us the time.
The short hand on the clock
Goes from number to number,
Number to number, number to number.
The short hand on the clock
Goes from number to number.
To tell us the time.
The long hand on the clock
Goes around by fives,
Around by fives, around by fives.
The long hand on the clock
Goes around by fives.
To tell us the minutes.
by Author Unknown: can be sung to the same tune as that of “Wheels on the Bus”
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“My watch is three hours fast and I can’t fix it, so I’m gonna move to New York.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.
Overheard: Let’s all synchronize our watches.
“My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?” -Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852 - 1917): comment made to a man in the street who was carrying a grandfather clock
Preston: How should you greet a grandfather clock?
Pierce: “Hello, old timer!”
Heloise: What did the digital watch say to the grandfather clock?
Louise: “Look Pops, no hands!”
“Timepiece: An indicator device of the progression of events relative one to another, though in itself holding no sway over them.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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The Sad Tale of Mr. Mears
There was a man who had a clock,
His name was Matthew Mears;
And every day he wound that clock
For eight and twenty years.
And then one day he found that clock
An eight-day* clock to be;
And a madder man than Matthew Mears
You would not wish to see.
by Author Unknown
*An eight-day clock is a clock that is wound once in every eight days.
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“You can’t turn back the clock but you can wind it up again.” -Author Unknown
Riddle: What runs but has no legs?
Solution: A clock.
Analog clocks and watches have hands that move around a dial, or clockface, and digital clocks and watches have numerical, or number, displays.
The tip of a 0.846666666667 centimeter (1/3 inch long) hour hand on an analog wristwatch travels at 0.000004425696 kilometers (0.00000275 miles) per hour. By comparison, the fastest-moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of about 0.0503724672 kilometers (0.0313 miles) per hour. This must be the reason why so many pet snails are named Speedy, but so many wristwatches are named Old Reliable.
In many advertisements for analog watches, or watches with hands, the time shown is with the hands at 10 and 2 (the digital watch equivalent of 10:10), because the hand positions for this time are thought to subtly represent a smiling face in the minds of people who view the ads . . . and as we have been told, everybody likes a joyful timepiece.
Sign on a clock repair shop: Cuckoo Clocks Psychoanalyzed Here.
Olga: Why was the clock put in the tree?
Olaf: Because it was a little cuckoo.
The tip of a 0.846666666667 centimeter (1/3 inch long) hour hand on an analog wristwatch travels at 0.000004425696 kilometers (0.00000275 miles) per hour. By comparison, the fastest-moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of about 0.0503724672 kilometers (0.0313 miles) per hour. This must be the reason why so many pet snails are named Speedy, but so many wristwatches are named Old Reliable.
In many advertisements for analog watches, or watches with hands, the time shown is with the hands at 10 and 2 (the digital watch equivalent of 10:10), because the hand positions for this time are thought to subtly represent a smiling face in the minds of people who view the ads . . . and as we have been told, everybody likes a joyful timepiece.
Sign on a clock repair shop: Cuckoo Clocks Psychoanalyzed Here.
Olga: Why was the clock put in the tree?
Olaf: Because it was a little cuckoo.
Cuckoo clocks are not just for eccentric people anymore . . . but mostly they are. We are kidding - they are for anybody who wants one. You might need several of them, so that they keep each other company and do not get lonely . . . one for the kitchen, another for the living room, and one for the pack patio.
Cuckoo clock, noun: 1. A decorative clock with a little wooden bird inside it that comes out every hour and makes a two-note sound like a cuckoo. 2. A timepiece that drives some people crazy, or at the very least, to distraction.
Meanwhile, in a parallel Universe, a bird pops out of a cuckoo clock every hour and asks, “What time is it?!”
Clovis: What goes tick-tock, woof-woof?
Mavis: A watchdog.
“The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.” -Tillie Olsen: “Tell Me a Riddle” (1980)
Chronometrophobia is a persistent fear of clocks. Maybe it has something to do with that annoying tick, tick, tick, tick . . . or maybe it is the persistent bzzz-zzz or bbbrrrnnng or beep-beep-beep of the alarm . . . or the onward march of time . . .
Alarm clock, noun: 1. A device designed to scare the daylights out of you. 2. An electronic device used to wake up people who have no pets or children.
Rancher Rick: What do you get if you cross a clock and a chicken?
Farmer Fred: An alarm cluck.
Hickory, Dickory, Dock,
Three mice ran up the clock,
The clock struck one and
That mouse hired a personal injury attorney
And sued for assault-and-battery.
by Author Unknown
Riddle: What has a face but cannot talk?
Solution: A clock.
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The Clock
There’s a neat little clock, -
In the schoolroom it stands, -
And it points to the time
With its two little hands.
And may we, like the clock,
Keep a face clean and bright,
With hands ever ready
To do what is right.
by Author Unknown
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“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830 - 1916)
Rudy: What do people do in clock factories?
Rudolph: They make faces all day.
Tick Tock
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
Merrily sings the clock.
It’s time for work,
It’s time for play,
And so it sings
Through all the day.
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
Merrily sings the clock.
by Author Unknown
This is MFOL! . . . and the clock is telling us it is time to get started on what is coming up next . . .
Cuckoo clock, noun: 1. A decorative clock with a little wooden bird inside it that comes out every hour and makes a two-note sound like a cuckoo. 2. A timepiece that drives some people crazy, or at the very least, to distraction.
Meanwhile, in a parallel Universe, a bird pops out of a cuckoo clock every hour and asks, “What time is it?!”
Clovis: What goes tick-tock, woof-woof?
Mavis: A watchdog.
“The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.” -Tillie Olsen: “Tell Me a Riddle” (1980)
Chronometrophobia is a persistent fear of clocks. Maybe it has something to do with that annoying tick, tick, tick, tick . . . or maybe it is the persistent bzzz-zzz or bbbrrrnnng or beep-beep-beep of the alarm . . . or the onward march of time . . .
Alarm clock, noun: 1. A device designed to scare the daylights out of you. 2. An electronic device used to wake up people who have no pets or children.
Rancher Rick: What do you get if you cross a clock and a chicken?
Farmer Fred: An alarm cluck.
Hickory, Dickory, Dock,
Three mice ran up the clock,
The clock struck one and
That mouse hired a personal injury attorney
And sued for assault-and-battery.
by Author Unknown
Riddle: What has a face but cannot talk?
Solution: A clock.
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The Clock
There’s a neat little clock, -
In the schoolroom it stands, -
And it points to the time
With its two little hands.
And may we, like the clock,
Keep a face clean and bright,
With hands ever ready
To do what is right.
by Author Unknown
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“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830 - 1916)
Rudy: What do people do in clock factories?
Rudolph: They make faces all day.
Tick Tock
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
Merrily sings the clock.
It’s time for work,
It’s time for play,
And so it sings
Through all the day.
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
Merrily sings the clock.
by Author Unknown
This is MFOL! . . . and the clock is telling us it is time to get started on what is coming up next . . .
