Quotes About Time

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.