Quotes About Time

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

There's a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.