Time Quotes

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

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

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin

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 M. Barrie

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce

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

You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke

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

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

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

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
John B. Priestly

The Present is a Point just passed.
David Russell

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 the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!
Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams