Ten famous aphorisms about cherishing time:
1. If a young man does not work hard, he will be sad. ——Han Dynasty - Anonymous "Yuefu Poems·Long Song Xing"
Translation: If you don't work hard when you are young and strong, it will be useless to be sad when you are old.
2. Days will never pass by in vain, youth will never come again. ——Tang Dynasty - Lin Kuan's "Youth Journey"
Translation: Don't waste your days in vain. Youth only comes once, and there is no chance of it coming again.
3. Those who abandon time, time also abandons him. ——British-Shakespeare
4. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time. ——Tang Dynasty - "Two Poems from White Deer Cave" by Wang Zhenbai
Translation: Every inch of time is as precious as an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.
5. Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day. ——Modern Times - Mao Zedong's "Man Jiang Hong·and Comrade Guo Moruo"
6. Never leave until tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Get him! ——British Dickens' "David Copperfield"
7. Tomorrow comes tomorrow, and there are so many tomorrows. ——Ming Dynasty-Qian Fu's "Song of Tomorrow"
Translation: Tomorrow is another tomorrow, how many tomorrows there are.
8. Any saving is ultimately a saving of time. ——Germany Marx
9. Time is life, time is speed, and time is power. ——Modern Times-Guo Moruo
10. Young people are young and old, but they cherish their glory in old age. ——The Southern and Northern Dynasties - He Xun's "Old Poems for Zhu You"
Translation: When you are young, you don't pay attention to time, but when you are old, you will lament that time is fleeting.