Quotes About Time

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Rome was not built in a day.

Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

When people say: she's got everything, I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

Superior people never make long visits.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

A leap year Is never a good sheep year.

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech, shallow as Time.

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

But where are the snows of yesteryear?

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

God and a soldier all .people adore In time of war, but not before; And when war is over and all things are righted, God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

The busy have no time for tears.

The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.