Quotes About Time

Life's a waste of time, time's a waste of life — so let's all get wasted and have the time of our life.

But it is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn't influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time.

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy — then you should sit for an hour.

Life is never so busy that there is no time to serve.

25th Anniversary. — Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

A chap ort t' save a few o' th' long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

What fools, indeed, we mortals are To lavish care upon a Car With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery!

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?

New is something old that has been long forgotten.

Best friends don't necessarily have to talk every day. They don't even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it's like they never stopped talking.

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.

I haven't cut my hair since the quarantine began. Today I stepped on the scale for the first time in a while. Who knew that hair weighs so much?!

Remember wishing the weekend would last forever? Are you happy now?!

Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots.

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.

If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.

Today is the longest day of the year—but anymore, every day is.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the years as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life could begin. At last it had dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. I was always rolling these stones from my grave.

I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.