Time Quotes

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Time Quotes and Quotations

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ~John B. Priestly

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. ~Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything. ~Robert Brault

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? ~Tillie Olsen

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well. ~Jonathan Carroll

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli

By the time we've made it, we've had it. ~Malcolm Forbes

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ~Jack London

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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. ~George Bernard Shaw

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important. ~Mariel Hemingway

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. ~Robert Brault

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~ Doug Larson

How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on. ~Zall's Second Law

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. ~Golda Meir

I took some time out for life. ~James L. Brooks

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. ~H. G. Wells

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? ~John Wooden

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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. ~Elbert Hubbard

I'll wind thee up no more. ~Ben Jonson

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. ~Francois Rabelais

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ~J.K. Rowling, "The

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Know how to live the time that is given you. ~Dario Fo

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. ~Roger Babson

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ~Tony Hendra

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. ~Friedrich Schiller

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Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. ~Antonio Porchia

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton

My time is now. ~John Turner

Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes. Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears. By lending them minutes

and charging them years. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens

One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ~Sister Mary Paul

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. ~John Wanamaker

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Strikes empires from the root. ~Edward Young

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ~Abraham Lincoln

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie Olsen

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~Antonio Porchia

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~ C. S. Lewis

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like

exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not.... ~Thomas Carlyle

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. ~Martin H. Fischer

The Present is a Point just passed. ~David Russell

The time I kill is killing me. ~Mason Cooley

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The years like great black oxen tread the world. And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind. ~William Butler Yeats

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. ~Mignon McLaughlin

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ~Napoleon I, Maxims

There's time enough, but none to spare. ~Charles W. Chesnutt

Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,

Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. ~Alan Lakein

Time brings all things to pass. ~Aeschylus

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. ~Thomas Hardy

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Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. ~Friedrich Schiller

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ~Henry Austin Dobson

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. ~Khalil Gibran

Time heals what reason cannot. ~Seneca

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? ~Paracelsus

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Louis Hector Berlioz

Time is a very healing place, one in which you can grow. ~Denise Tanner

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. ~Henry David Thoreau

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

Time is making fools of us again. ~J.K. Rowling

Time is money. ~Benjamin Franklin

Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement. ~Mike Dolan,

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~ Carl

Sandburg

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. ~Giordano Bruno

Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz

Time is the longest distance between two places. ~Tennessee Williams

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz

Time is the wisest counselor of all. ~Pericles

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. ~William Penn

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. ~Daniel J. Boorstin

Time moves in one direction, memory in another. ~William Gibson

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. ~Author Unknown

Time! the corrector when our judgments err. ~Lord Byron

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. ~Thomas Huxley

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Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life. ~Michael LeBoeuf

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. ~William Shakespeare

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. ~Nelson Mandela

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ~Mark Helprin

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine

When in doubt, take more time. ~John Zimmerman

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~The Talmud

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. ~Thomas J. Watson

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Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;

You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke

You may delay, but time will not. ~Benjamin Franklin

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. ~James M. Barrie

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