Quotes About Time

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

The shelf life of a baguette is about six hours, max.)

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

To be adult means, among other things, to see one's own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.

your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life .... And, most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." These

Babies haven't any hair;Old men's heads are just as bare;Between the cradle and the graveLies a haircut and a shave.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered

Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-color'd life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The future is purchased by the present.

"Enlarge my life with multitude of days!"In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:Hides from himself his state, and shuns to knowThat life protracted is protracted woe.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.