Welcome to The Quote Garden! celebrating 13 years online   1998-2011                 Find Your Way    HOME     Quote Index     FAQ & Contact     Twitter     QuoteHug     Privacy   Quotations about Time    Related Quotes      Carpe Diem      Age      Live Now      Memories  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   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, 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, 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 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 goes, you say?  Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ~Henry Austin Dobson   Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.  ~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; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.  ~James Matthew 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 would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.  ~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   When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said, “Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.”  ~Author Unknown   Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, 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 like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas – But, goodness, why need they do it?  ~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 only you can determine how it will be spent.  Be careful lest you let other people 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   Darn the wheel of the world!  Why must it continually turn over?  Where is the reverse gear?  ~Jack London   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   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   Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time’s enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root. ~Edward Young   The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.  ~Martin H. Fischer   Time is the wisest counsellor of all.  ~Pericles   Time is the only thief we can’t get justice against.  ~Astrid Alauda   There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960   The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time.  I always remember, “Spring back or Fall in.”  ~Dave Beard (@Raqhun)   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   Time is the longest distance between two places.  ~Tennessee Williams   Among life’s regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com   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.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com   Time, the cradle of hope…. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it:  he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have 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 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   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   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)   Page Information: www.quotegarden.com/time.html Last modified 2011 Jun 05 Sun 10:42 PDT    Find Your Way    HOME     Quote Index     FAQ & Contact     Twitter     QuoteHug     Privacy