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• Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capo
  and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair, hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day....
• Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York, and all the clouds that loured upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
  Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, our bruised arms hung up for monuments, our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, our dreadful marches to delightful measures....
• For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King John -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc.
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• What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• Man: You may be interested to know that for my next crime, I'll be pinching the pride and joy of the Springfield Museum -- the world's largest cubic zirconia.
  Homer: Listen, Mr. Cat Burglar, I vow to go without sleep and guard the Springfield Museum day and night for as long as it takes from now on....
• Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move
  Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love....
• When I was young, I kissed my first woman, and smoked my first cigarette on the same day.
  Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco. -- Alfred Toscanini...
• Time is like a river, flowing endlessly through the universe.
  And if you poled your flatboat in that river, you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past....