Quotations about Time

by 3loomi Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:26 am

Clocksslay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by littlewheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~WilliamFaulkner

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

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Economy," Walden, 1854

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, butwith ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar ofpower or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all themoving. ~Martin Amis, Money

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937 (Thanks, George)

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; butsome of them are golden only because we let them slip by. ~JamesMatthew Barrie

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

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

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and wouldgive anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speedingup. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Hungarian Horntail," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000

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

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

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

El tiempo da buen consejo. ~Proverb

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, 1815

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin

Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on theinstant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping -rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals likeNew Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they doit? ~John Dos Passos, 1917

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

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

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

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

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

I am tired of the imposed rhythms of men,
Tethered time, restrained and trained
To a monotonous beat
Digital time blinking exactness
Unliving.
~Phillip Pulfrey, "Conjecture," Beyond Me, www.originals.net

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 sixtyminutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~C.S. Lewis

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

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. Ialways remember, "Spring back or Fall in." ~Dave Beard (@Raqhun)

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past isgone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past evenwhile we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, atonce exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

Can an afternoon revert? ~Carrie Latet

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time! ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. ~RobertBrault, www.robertbrault.com

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity withit, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will havelittle to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy willhave little to hope from his friends. ~Charles Caleb Colton

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

The Present is a Point just passed. ~David Russell

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 exactlythe same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buymore hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't savetime to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair andforgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, youstill have an entire tomorrow. ~Denis Waitely

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

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

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ~Ambrose Bierce

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

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ~Tony Hendra, "Deteriorata" (Thanks Tom)