Quotes About Time

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often.

I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Friends and wine should be old.

There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.

The ripest fruit first falls.

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.

Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

Why always, "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say, "not yet"?

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

Delay not to seize the hour!

To always be intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.