Quotes About Time

Entonces el ruiseñor voló sobre el rosal que crecía alrededor del reloj de sol.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

And Sleep will not lie down, but walks Wild-eyed and cries to Time.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young.

Si no tarda usted mucho, le esperaré aquí toda la vida.

For nearly twenty minutes, neither of the men spoke. A fly buzzed noisily about the room, and the ticking of the clock was like the beat of a hammer.

The one charm of the past is that it is in the past.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If

Le dramatique de la viellesse ce n'est pas qu'on se fait vieux, c'est qu'on reste jeune.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past, he answered.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life.

The one charm of the past is that it is past.

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My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow

Omnia mutantur; nihil interit

ego pulveris hausti ostendens cumulum, quot haberet corpora pulvis, tot mihi natales contingere vana rogavi; excidit, ut peterem iuvenes quoque protinus annos.

Time gliding by without our knowledge cheats us, and nothing can be swifter than the years.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these