Quotes About Time

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

There's no man on this earth can even be assured he'll have a next day.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Makes of men date, like makes of car.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

It is the lot of man but once to die.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.