Quotes About Time

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb—for we have no word to speak about it.

Today So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did: So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.

the worst waste, that of time.

Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

for is not every meanest Day "the conflux of two Eternities!

Mercury descended in vain; now has the time come for Mars.

In Büchern liegt die Seele aller gewesenen Zeit.«

Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

A woman is told by her doctor that she has six months to live. "Is there anything I can do?" she asks. "Yes, there is," the doctor replies. "You could marry a tax accountant." "How will that help my illness?" the woman asks. "Oh, it won't help your illness," says the doctor, "but it will make that six months seem like an eternity!

Punctuality is the soul of business.

and then you would never be happy." 21. ?Yet We made them known to others thus, that they would know the promise of God is true, and that there can be no doubt about the end of time.

It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

It must then have been nearly midnight: but so slowly did I creep along, that I heard a clock in a cottage strike four before I turned down the lane from Slough to Eton.

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

Girls are really resentful to their fathers when they don't get a chance to spend time with them, but now that my daughter knows everything I say damn near will come true or damn near is what it is, she loves me for that, she respects me for it, and I feel the same way with her.