Quotes About Time

There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.  ~ Spike Milligan


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


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


Time is the justice that examines all offenders.  ~ William Shakespeare


Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.  ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.  ~ Anatole France


There is time for everything.  ~ Thomas A. Edison


Time bears away all things.  ~ Virgil


Time, like money, is measured by our needs.  ~ George Eliot


Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.  ~ Theophrastus


No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.  ~ Leo Tolstoy


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


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


Time is the author of authors.  ~ Francis Bacon


Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.  ~ Aristotle


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


It's later than it's ever been.  ~ Lotus Weinstock


Time has told me less than I need to know.  ~ Gwen Harwood


Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.  ~ Groucho Marx


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


The time I kill is killing me.  ~ Mason Cooley


The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time.  ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater


A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.  ~ Francis Bacon


Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.  ~ Laozi


Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.  ~ John Lennon


If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious a gift.  ~ Frank Tyger


You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.  ~ Elsa Triolet


Time is a tyranny to be abolished.  ~ Eugene Jolus


Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.  ~ Ben Hecht


We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.  ~ John F. Kennedy


See how time makes all grief decay.  ~ Adelaide Proctor


Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


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


Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.  ~ Mother Teresa


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


Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.  ~ Andrew Jackson


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


Lost time is never found again.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


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


Nothing is our except time.  ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca


Killing time is the chief end of our society.  ~ Ugo Betti


Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.  ~ Douglas Adams


Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.  ~ Faith Baldwin


Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.  ~ John Lithgow


The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.  ~ Albert Einstein


Time is a great teacher, unfortunately it kills all of it's pupils.  Hector Berlioz


Time is the wisest counsellor of all.  ~ Pericles


We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.  ~ Vauvenargues


Wasted time means wasted lives.  ~ R. Shannon


Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.  ~ Jeremy Irons


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