Quotes About Time

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

I'm 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.