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


Time bears away all things.  ~ Virgil


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


Time and tide wait for no man.  ~ Stephen King


Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.  ~ Art Buchwald


Time is an illusion.  ~ Albert Einstein


I wasted time, and now doth time wastes me.  ~ William Shakespeare


Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.  ~ Natalie Clifford Barney


Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.  ~ Benjamin Disraeli


The time is always right to do what is right.  ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


Time brings all things to pass.  ~ Aeschylus


Time is a very shadow that passeth away.  ~ Apocrypha


Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.  ~ William Shakespeare


Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.  Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.  ~ Thomas Mann


He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.  ~ Francis Bacon


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