Quotes About Time

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

Without space, there is no time.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.