Flowers and hours soon fade away.

If you're average, you'll spend 157,000 hours getting an education. That leaves you 412,000 hours from age 18 to 65.

You'll spend eight hours of every day sleeping and eight hours eating and relaxing.

You're left eight hours a day to work in. If you live to be 65, you'll have only 134,000 hours in which to work.

No matter how rich you are, you can't buy more time. No matter how poor you are, you won't receive less time. You'll be given sixty minutes to an hour.

No wonder the Living Bible says, "Don't be fools; be wise: make the most of every opportunity for doing good."