Time Quotes:
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Sophocles
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
Sophocles
The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.
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
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells
Now is the age of anxiety.
W. H. Auden
Time passes irrevocably.
Virgil
Time is flying never to return.
Virgil
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
Virgil
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
The past cannot be cured.
Elizabeth I
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine
Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles
For time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams
Time, the devourer of all things.
Ovid
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
Bil Keane
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
Jules Verne
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Friedrich Schiller
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush
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
True time is four-dimensional.
Martin Heidegger
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
Steven Wright
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X
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
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
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
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce
Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson
Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus
But time growing old teaches all things.
Aeschylus
Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon
It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.
Elon Musk
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.
v John Dewey
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton
Time is bunk.
Douglas Adams
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
Charles Lamb
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.
Malcolm Forbes
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles