Quotes on Time

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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. - Peter Seller

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect. - William Hazlitt, The Feeling of Immortality in Youth

Time has become so precious that the store no longer keeps it on the shelf. You pick up a laminated card which says "To purchase this item, take this card to the cashier." - Tom Mezzatesta

Life expects you to make progress in reasonable time. That's why those third grade school chairs are so small. - Nikita Koloff

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? - Dr. Seuss

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change. - Edwin Way Teale

Time will heal a broken heart, just like time will heal his broken arms and legs. - Miss Piggy

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. - Jean De La Bruyère

We have so much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it. - Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Time discovers truth. - Seneca

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

Those who spend their time talking about others have nothing worthy of mention in their own lives. - Ray Waits

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 Waitley

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. – T.S. Eliot

Never waste a minute of your precious time by squandering it thinking about people you don't like. - Anonymous

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. - Gladys Taber

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. - Rabindranath Tagore

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. - Jennifer Unlimited

Words and time cannot be retrieved - use them wisely. - Unknown

A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste. - Anonymous

He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time. - Nigerian Proverb

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way. - Anonymous

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. - Dean Acheson

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

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke

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

Every seed knows its time. - Russian Proverb

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. - Chinese proverb

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. - Stephen Wright

I've been on a calendar, but never on time. - Marilyn Monroe

A vacation is a two week's experience where money and time race each other until both are exhausted. - Unknown

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - H. Jackson Brown

The man who dares to waist one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent. - Carl Sandburg

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try -- A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly. - A.A. Milne

Time is the master of humanity. Regardless of its use, the clock of life ticks on. - Rex E. Alford

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion Bocicault

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have? The question is what shall we do with it. - Anna Robertson Brown

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

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Lord Chesterfield

Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once - Unknown

Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. - T.S. Elliot

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life. - Anatole France (1844-1924)

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

Time is not a line, but a series of now points. - Taisen Deshimaru

The present moment is a powerful goddess - Goethe

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. - Jean de La Fontaine


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