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Quotes About Time

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
~ Vernon Howard
Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him
~ Charles Kingsley
Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.
~ Charlie Papazian
...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.
~ Richard Francis Burton
If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.
~ Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
~ Joseph Addison
In the life of one man, never The same time returns.
~ T. S. Eliot
But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.
~ George Best
There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.
~ Albert Camus
It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.
~ Amir Taheri
The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.
~ Andre Kertesz
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.
~ Ben Kingsley
A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.
~ E. W. Howe
In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.
~ Edgar Cayce
One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.
~ Gregg Allman
There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.
~ James Crumley
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
~ Mitch Albom
The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
~ Neal Stephenson
He parks in the far corner of the lot, explaining that it is more logical to do this and then walk for fifteen seconds than it is to spend fifteen minutes looking for a closer space.
~ Neal Stephenson