Quotes About Time

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."

A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man

Age doesn't make a man.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.