1. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of time is hard to buy. Time is like water in a river, which can only flow away and cannot be turned back. Wang Zhenbai.

2. the inch is long and the foot is short. -"Historical Records Biography of Tian Lei and Wang Jian"

Whoever has an inch of grass will have three rays of spring. -Meng Jiao.