“Once you've been taken, you usually have twenty-four hours left to live.”
“But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.”
“It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.”
“[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.”
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ”