Quotations on Time
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For lack of an original thought today, here are some quotations on time.
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
Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It’s passing, yet I’m the one who’s doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis
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
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli
Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. ~Author Unknown
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
~William Shakespeare
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 Matthew Barrie
It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;
Would thou could’st make the time to do so too;
I’ll wind thee up no more.
~Ben Jonson
Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~The Talmud
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
How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on. ~Zall’s Second Law
Time! the corrector when our judgments err. ~Lord Byron
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 Sandberg
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. ~Elbert Hubbard
Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. ~Friedrich Schiller
The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~C.S. Lewis
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
The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. ~Martin H. Fischer
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst. ~Willaim Penn
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time! ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time.
~Edward Fitzgerald
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. ~Henry David Thoreau
Methinks I see the wanton hours flee,
And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
~George Villiers
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. ~Denis Waitely
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ~Ambrose Bierce
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