Quotes About Time

A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

There is a history in all men's lives.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.