Famous aphorisms about cherishing time include:

1. Life is short. If you waste your time, your short life will be too long. ——Shakespeare

2. The golden age is in front of us and not behind us. ——Mark Twain

3. Treat every day of your life as your last day. ——Helen Keller

4. Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is the stuff of life. ——Franklin

5. If you don’t do what you should do today, tomorrow will be delayed no matter how early it is. ——Pestalozzi

6. Don’t wait for tomorrow to do what you do today, and don’t wait for others to do what you do. ——Goethe

7. The use of time is an extremely advanced rule. ——Engels

8. All savings, in the final analysis, boil down to the saving of time. ——Marx

9. Ten thousand years is too long, just seize the day. ——Mao Zedong

10. Time is a great mentor. ——Burke

11. Shoot arrows into the string at the age of 11. ——Meng Xiao

12. Arranging time reasonably is equivalent to saving time. ——Bacon