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Quotes About Time

You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars, because each day is different.
~ Phillip Hewett
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
~ Anonymous
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A little space of time before time expires; a little way of breath.
~ Algernon Swinburne
Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Time is the only critic without ambition.
~ John Steinbeck
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
~ Theophrastus
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
~ Pericles
Time is the soul of this world.
~ Plutarch
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
~ Carl Sandburg
Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Time is the tyrant of the body.
~ Anonymous
Time is the king of men.
~ William Shakespeare
Time is the dressing room for eternity.
~ Anonymous
Time is an available instrument for reaching the eternal.
~ John W. Lynch
Time itself is an element.
~ Johann von Goethe
Time is the devourer of all things.
~ Ovid
Time is the subtle thief of youth.
~ John Milton
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Time is an illusion-to orators.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
~ Pierre Corneille
Time is a river without banks.
~ Marc Chagall
Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place, his work noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
~ Charles Dickens
Time is the stuff life's made of.
~ David Belasco