Quotes About Time

When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.

The loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough, and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, savour you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky, and want, more than all the world, your return.

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Life's a very funny proposition, after all.

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Keeping a secret from my wife is like trying to smuggle daylight past a rooster. Annoyed wife to husband: Can't you just say we've been married twenty-four years instead of "almost a quarter of a century"?

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.