Quotes About Time

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.

The tide tarrieth no man.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.