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Calendar Proverbs

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. ~ Charles Kettering

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. ~ Michael Ende

To divide one’s life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings. ~ Cliff Fadiman

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, “there goes another day of my life, never to return,” you will become time conscious. ~ A. B. Zu Tavern

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. ~ Oscar Wilde

I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life. ~ Gene Simmons

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July. ~ Mac Thornberry

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently. ~ Gary Zukav

I’ve found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day – let the calendar take care of the years. ~ Ed Wynn

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty, or go to a concert when I like. ~ Golda Meir

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you’re going to do with it. ~ Susie Bright

Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~ Charles Richards

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. ~ H.G. Wells

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real. ~ Leslie Marmon Silko

No date on the calendar is as important as tomorrow. ~ Roy W. Howard


Sayings about Calendars

Life just gives you time and space — It’s up to you to fill it. ~ Chinese Proverb

Women and calendars are good only for a year. ~ Spanish Proverb

Death keeps no calendar. ~ English Proverb

The frog knows more about the rain than the calendar. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)

There is always lots of time to die and to pay. ~ Catalonian Proverb

There is a time to fish and a time to dry the nets. ~ Chinese Proverb

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. ~ Chinese Proverb

He who does not know what to do in his spare time is not a businessman. ~ Chinese Proverb

Do everything at the right time and one day will seem like three. ~ Chinese Proverb

Quotations about Calendars

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. ~ Charles Kettering

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. ~ Michael Ende

To divide one’s life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings. ~ Cliff Fadiman

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, “there goes another day of my life, never to return,” you will become time conscious. ~ A. B. Zu Tavern

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. ~ Oscar Wilde

I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life. ~ Gene Simmons

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July. ~ Mac Thornberry

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently. ~ Gary Zukav

I’ve found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day – let the calendar take care of the years. ~ Ed Wynn

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty, or go to a concert when I like. ~ Golda Meir

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you’re going to do with it. ~ Susie Bright

Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~ Charles Richards

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. ~ H.G. Wells

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real. ~ Leslie Marmon Silko

No date on the calendar is as important as tomorrow. ~ Roy W. Howard

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