Quotes About Time

There is ample time to sleep; after death.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

Never leave till tomorrow, which you can do today.

Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

He that drinks fast, pays slow.

Our sensations being very much fixed to the moment, we are apt to forget that more moments are to follow the first, and consequently that man should arrange his conduct so as to suit the whole of a life.

Industry. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.

He that wastes idly a groat's worth of his time per day one day with another, wastes the privilege of using 100£ each day.

For age and want save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day.

If dost thou love life, then Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of,

239Fish and Visitors stink after three days

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old. I us'd to write more methodically. But one does not dress for private company as for a publick ball. 'Tis perhaps only negligence.

I concluded to let my papers shift for themselves, believing it was better to spend what time I could spare from public business in making new experiments, than in disputing about those already made.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old.

Work as if you were to live 100 years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow.

Why do tomorrow what you can do today?

the rapid progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon

sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never;

For age and want save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day. If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading Or do things worth writing.

As the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard noted, life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.