Quotes About Time

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?