Quotes About Time

The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

For some we loved, the loveliest and the bestThat from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest.

Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.

Think, in this batter'd CaravanseraiWhose Portals are alternate Night and Day,How Sultan after Sultan with his PompAbode his destin'd Hour, and went his way.

Ah, my Belovèd, fill the Cup that clearsToday of past Regrets and future Fears:Tomorrow!—Why, Tomorrow I may beMyself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of SpringThe Winter garment of Repentance fling:The Bird of Time has but a little wayTo fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days, Where destiny with men for pieces plays; Hither and thither, and mates, and slays.

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,Before we too into the Dust descend;Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes

If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.

gave Garak some of the best years of my life.

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.

Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.

Writing becomes a form of protest against the incontestable ravages of time. The poet takes revenge on mortality, defeating cruelty and saving what she can by thinking the unthinkable and presiding over her own creation. The joy of writing stands against the bitter knowledge of just how much of the world cannot be controlled outside the work of art. This is the art of poetry trying to kill time. "Probably

Cicero said that even if his lifetime were to be doubled he would still not have time to waste on reading the lyric poets.

Writing fixes the evanescence of sound and holds it against death.

Jonson wrote a poem and called his son His best piece of poetrie A lovely line a little loathsome I loved that poem once He said we are lent our sons never take Too much pleasure in what you love

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

As a customer's man, his best brokerage work was securing the old age of his clients: time for them to do what they wished.

It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other.

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls, and the recruiting-officer of Hell.

The important thing is not how many years in your life but how much life in your years.

Forty-four years ago