Quotes About Time

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.

Time is the greatest innovator.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

Time is a very shadow that passeth away.

Time is the author of authors.

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

I was told to be accurate, be brief, and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

A lot of you want me to hurry through the introduction. That's because you're so much older you don't want to waste a minute of your life.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Men do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

Opportunity knocks but once.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

Not all speed is movement.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

When I was fourteen, I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

It is so comical to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!