“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

— Winston S. Churchill, book My Early Life

My early life, 1874–1904 (1930), Churchill, Winston S., p. 45 (1996 Touchstone Edition), ISBN 0684823454
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) American scientist and inventor

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“It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.”

Stanley Fish (1938) American academic

Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 3, It's Not The Thought That Counts, p. 26

“Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years…”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-British politician, playwright and writer

Pizarro (first acted 24 May 1799), Act iv, Scene 1. Compare: "Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours / Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours", Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.

“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“… like us? Counting up the minutes -- have we spent half an hour together?”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

“Isn't it odd how parents grieve if their child spends six hours a day on the 'Net, but are delighted if those same hours are spent reading books?”

Nicholas Negroponte (1943) American computer scientist

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“Great hour! Spent together, rejoicing and dreaming. Days and years are gathering. We are a still island in the ocean of the world. Beginning and end! Border between life and eternity! Euphoria, fulfillment, existence!”

Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister

Große Stunde! Mit dem zweiten Menschen, dem anderen verjubelt und verträumt. Tage, Jahre sammeln sich. Eine ruhende stille Insel im Ozean Welt sind wir. Ende und Anfang! Grenze zwischen Leben und Ewigkeit! Rausch, Fülle, Dasein!
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

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