Quotes About Time

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

There is a reason God limits man's days.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal.

He was a man too busy to flush toilets.

Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.

If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.

To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live.

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Man has been lent, not given, to life.

The old men know when an old man dies.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

Now if you'll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me.

A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,—when?

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.