Quotes About Time

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear: Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

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Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.

Miniver Cheevy, born too late,Scratched his head and kept on thinking;Miniver coughed and called it fate,And kept on drinking.

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

Who knows to-day from yesterday May learn to count no thing too strange: Love builds of what Time takes away, Till Death itself is less than Change.

Poet and kings are but the clerks of Time.

We cannot crown ourselves with everything Nor can we coax the Fates for us to quarrel: No matter what we are, or what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel.

The daylight lingered past its time In rose-leaf radiance on the watching peaks, So it seemed Night listened in the glens And Noon upon the mountains.

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!

This is not to say that history repeats itself. Time is not a carousel on which we might, next time around, snatch the brass ring by being better prepared. Rather we see the past as flowing powerfully through the present and think that charting historical currents can enhance our ability to navigate them.

Take your time All will pass You'll still be there at home

There is a time for all things, but I didn't know it. And that is precisely what beats so many men in Wall Street who are very far from being in the main sucker class. There is the plain fool, who does the wrong thing at all times everywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool, who thinks he must trade all the time. No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.

The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living .

Time is the river. We are the islands. Time washes around us and flows away and with it flow fragments of our lives. So, little by little, each island shrinks….But where, who can say, down the long stream of time, are our eroded days deposited?

A woman is a unique institution upon herself; one learns, gains, and holds to be thankful for her; she is not a day, week, or year; she is a time of every time with her love, colors, and devotion since the charm of the world is nothing without her.