Time Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Charles Caleb Colton
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| Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. |
| - Douglas Adams |
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| 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 |
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| 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 Aurelius Augustine |
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| Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| El tiempo da buen consejo. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. |
| - Faith Baldwin |
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| 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. |
| - Sir James Matthew Barrie |
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| Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. |
| - Jim Bishop |
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| Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. |
| - Robert Byrne |
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| Time! the corrector when our judgments err. |
| - Lord Byron |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. |
| - Mason Cooley |
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| The time you think you're missing, misses you too. |
| - Ymber Delecto |
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| 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 |
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| But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. |
| - Benjamin Disraeli |
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| If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. |
| - Maria Edgeworth |
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| This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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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 |
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| The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. |
| - Malcolm S. Forbes |
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| Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. |
| - Max Frisch |
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| All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. |
| - Baltasar Gracian |
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| Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time! |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!' |
| - John F. Kennedy |
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| We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. |
| - John F. Kennedy |
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| 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 |
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| People find life entirely too time-consuming. |
| - Stanislaw J. Lec |
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| So little time and so little to do. |
| - Oscar Levant |
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| The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. |
| - C.S. Lewis |
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| I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| 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 |
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| The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. |
| - Plutarch |
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| Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| What may be done at any time will be done at no time. |
| - Scottish Proverb |
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| Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| The Present is a Point just passed. |
| - David Russell |
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| 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 |
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| As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| We must all take time to do enough thinking to formulate our own conclusions. |
| - Thomas Watson |
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| Make time your ally and time will make you. |
| - Thomas Watson |
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| Time is the longest distance between two places. |
| - Tennessee Williams |
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