Quotes About Time

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.