Quotes About Time

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

A vida é um palco de teatro que não admite ensaios. Por isso, cante, chore, ria, antes que as cortinas se fechem e o espectáculo termine sem aplausos

El tiempo es el mejor autor: siempre encuentra un final perfecto.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might.

Sense of an Ending

Hatred's destination is boredom, and boredom is perhaps a rebellion against time; it's the finished putting up a fight with the end.

The future requires kids; without them, there's eventually no tomorrow. In time, of course, everybody runs out of tomorrows. The one thing you can say about the future, Joseph Brodsky has written, is that it won't include you. That's true, and yet the dyad of money and children plots you way out there in that world of tomorrows you don't get. Your dream, then, is of a nothingness where an investment of love lives on. You believe in a time that's not your own.

You want to find yourself in the flow of time, miraculously relieved of your irrelevance.

Keeping skills up to date requires the investment of time, effort, and perhaps even money for tuition. But it's worth it for an extra decade of productive activity.

TIME IS ARCHIMEDES' LEVER in investing.    Archimedes is often quoted as saying, "Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth." In investing, that lever is time. (And the place to stand, of course, is a firm and realistic investment policy.)

When S&P measured performance over a longer time period, the results got worse. Over 80 percent of large-cap managers and almost 90 percent of small-cap managers underperformed their benchmark indexes over a ten-year period through December 2015.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

All stones are close to us. The last is behind us. (Toutes les pierres sont près de nous. - La dernière est derrière nous.) [Fables1, The Bird and its Sun / L'Oiseau et son Soleil]

Death comes so fast that sometimes it misses us. (La mort arrive si vite Que des fois elle nous rate)

Death is a good Hotel : you are a guest at any Time. (Un bon hôtel est la mort. Elle nous accueille à toute heure)

Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent Le passé, non l'avenir)

Life is short, even in letter. (Vie, c'est court, Même en lettre)

She realized then that time passes, but the imagination remains, even if it does not seem to exist. (Elle comprit alors que le temps passe, mais l'imagination reste, même si cela semble ne pas exister)"

The autumn leaf falls faster than the trees grow faster. (La feuille d'automne descend plus vite - Que les arbres ne grandissent plus vite.)

The boa digests slowly. The habit digests slowly. (Le boa digère lentement. - L'habitude digère lentement.)