Quotes About Time

Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.

In my beginning is my end.

Where, unwilling, dies the rose, Buds the new, another year.

You know you are getting older when "happy hour" is a nap.

I wouldn't say someone is old just because his social security is in Roman numerals or because Mozart played at his senior prom.

Literature is news that stays news.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Cost little less than new before they're ended.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

Quebec is the original heart, the hardest and deepest kernel, the core of first time. All round, nine other provinces form the flesh of this still-bitter fruit called Canada.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.

Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.)