Quotes About Time

We live in a primitive time—don't we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

O God! O God! that it were possibleTo undo things done; to call back yesterday!That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass,To untell the days, and to redeem these hours.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war, as is of every man, against every man.

Now 'tis little joyTo know I'm farther off from heavenThan when I was a boy.

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

The patina of age is a lesson that time is forever and that you, creature of an hour, would do well to know humility in the face of eternity.

envisioned them in rocking chairs forty years down

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

"Go to the d—l!" said the disappointed ghost-hunter. An hour—two—rolled on, and still no spectral visitation... and when the turret-clock sounded at length the hour of three, Ingoldsby, whose patience and grog were alike exhausted, sprang from his chair, saying— "This is all infernal nonsense, my good fellow. Deuce of any ghost shall we see to-night..."

the bad stuff will ultimately turn good if you wait long enough, and the good stuff will turn bad over time.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.

No one needs a watch. What we need is time.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

A hundred years? In political terms, that's when dinosaurs ruled the planet.