Quotes About Time

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

There is no avoidance in delay.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Time is the best killer.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been very much present in your mind during that period.

One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same eyes-even supposing that it should improbably have remained much the same. What you have had you have had. 'The happy highways where I went, And shall not come again...' Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.

There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.

Yes. She rebelled, I suppose, against being made to live in the past. After all, there's a time for everything. You can't sit in the house with the blinds down forever.

It's not a man's working hours that are important – it's his leisure hours.

Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing.