“4934. There is nothing more precious than Time, and nothing more prodigally wasted.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Nothing is so dear and precious as time.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 5.
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“Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.”
Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) Byzantine saint
§ 70
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Speech at Aylesbury, Royal and Central Bucks Agricultural Association (21 September 1865), cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 356
1860s
“There is nothing more precious than laughter”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
“Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.”
Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam
Political slogan, quoted in Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam : A Personal Memoir (1972) by Jean Sainteny, p. 172
Variant translation: Nothing is more valuable than freedom and independence.
World Marxist Review: Problems of Peace and Socialism (1979), p. 91
“In war-time,’ I said, ‘truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference (November 30, 1943); in The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
As quoted in Alan Walker, Franz Liszt : The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (1987) Page 117.