Quotes About Time

Losers with no imagination say that if you start a new school, there has to be a first day. How come they haven't figure out how to be that? Just think existentially. All you do is take what is supposed to be the first day and bury someplace in the next month. By the time you get around to it a month later, who cares?

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Friends are thieves of time.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.

Time, which is the author of authors.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

If you are not happy for a minute, then you lost 60 seconds of happiness in your life

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Olan olmuÅŸtur art?k, bir daha deÄŸiÅŸtirilemez, dolay?s?yla bilge kiÅŸiler ancak ÅŸimdiyle gelecekle uÄŸra??r, geçmiÅŸte olup bitenlerle uÄŸraÅŸanlar ise boÅŸa zaman harcam?? olurlar.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

To choose time is to save time.

Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.