Quotes About Time

It is privilege of living to be ... acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.

The waters wear the stones.

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.

Seize time by the forelock.

Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.

Tomorrow never yet On any human being rose or set.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

Sleep faster, we need the pillows.

For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away.

Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.