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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
Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
— Henry Austin Dobson
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
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 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 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 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 time you think you're missing, misses you too. — Ymber Delecto
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
Watches are so named as a reminder - if you don't watch carefully
what you do with your time, it will slip away from you. — Drew
Sirtors
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
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
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
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. — Author Unknown
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Quotations about Time