Quotes About Time

It is not well, when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time—it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. I was born without teeth—and there Richard III had the advantage of me; but I was born without a humpback, likewise, and there I had the advantage of him. My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. But

Vergangenheit ist, wenn es nicht mehr weh tut.

But who shall tell how many ages it seemed to this prisoner?

Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury.

There is a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in. But of course this was at rare intervals. Ferryboats used to lose valuable trips because their passengers grew old and died, waiting for us to get by.

There was no Pacific railroad in those fine times of ten or twelve years ago—not a single rail of it. I only proposed to stay in Nevada three months—I had no thought of staying longer than that. I meant to see all I could that was new and strange, and then hurry home to business. I little thought that I would not see the end of that three-month pleasure excursion for six or seven uncommonly long years!

I apologize for the length of this letter. If I had had more time, it would have been shorter.

memories which some day will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that incumbers them shall have faded out of our minds never again to return.

Bundan 20 y?l sonra, yapt?klar?ndan çok yapmad???n ÅŸeylerden piÅŸmanl?k duyacaks?n.

Since there was so much time to spare that nineteen years of it could be devoted to the construction of a mere towhead, where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days?

Istoria nu se repet? dar rimeaz?.

So the tiresome minutes and decades of minutes dragged away, until at last our tense forms filmed over with a dulled consciousness

È un peccato che la parte migliore della nostra vita sia all'inizio e la peggiore alla fine.

Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late. You know what I mean–I don't know the words to put it in.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.

Più divento vecchio, più vividamente ricordo cose che non sono avvenute.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. But

History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.

History don't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Plans are worthless but planning is everything.

On a que le temps pour aimer et pas un instant de plus.

depuis la petite Estelle dont les dents commençaient à pousser, jusqu'au vieux Bonnemort en train de perdre les siennes

Es ist idiotisch, sieben oder acht Monate an einem Roman zu schreiben, wenn man in jedem Buchladen für zwei Dollar einen kaufen kann.

History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.