Quotes About Time

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.