"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."
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"To be a fool at the right time is also an art."
"I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do."
"If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life."
"There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG."
"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have."
"In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing."
"Was there ever a time when the majority was right?"
"Success. Money. Fame. Whatever you're going after. You have one kick at the can, I always say. It's very rare that you have many kicks at the can. You're there at the right place at the right time, you have your shot, and it either works or it doesn't. And I've had many shots."
"If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes."
"Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!""
"For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time."