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Quotes About Time

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
~ Jean Rostand
Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.
~ Joanna Baillie
A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that test against anyone at anytime, anywhere.
~ Russell Means
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
~ Seneca the Younger
Any man can be 62, but it takes a bus to be 62A.
~ Spike Milligan
Age will flatten a man.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
~ Wayne Newton
The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .
~ William McKinley
Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.
~ Charlize Theron
I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.
~ Demetri Martin
It's nine o'clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is?
~ Elle Varner
Ain't no man can outrun his fate.
~ Esi Edugyan
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
~ Garrison Keillor
Some people are boys longer than others.
~ Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed
There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
~ A. E. Housman
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.
~ Abraham Lincoln
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
~ Adam Smith
In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
~ Alexandre Dumas
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men cannot live forever But they must die forever.
~ Allen Tate
For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
~ Ann Patchett