A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

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Time Day Four Hours Mostly Period Twenty Twenty-Four

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.

Ambrose Bierce

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Nhat Hanh

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Michael Schenker

The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

W. W. Rouse Ball

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

Rita Hayworth

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

Thomas A. Edison

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Jay Samit

Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

Sri Chinmoy

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.

Bob McNair

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

Gayle Forman

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

Mahatma Gandhi

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

Nikki Giovanni

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.