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Quotes About Time

While I speak, time flies.
~ Ovid
Everything changes Everything flows. What we were or are Tomorrow we will not be.
~ Ovid
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
~ Ovid
I congratulate myself on not having arrived into this world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
~ Ovid
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.
~ Ovidius
The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box lies rusting over the face of the Western earth.
~ Owen Wister
I suppose everyone has had that ghastly feeling at one time or another of being urged by some overwhelming force to do some absolutely blithering act.
~ p g wodehouse
I gave it up. The man annoyed me. I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie, but I was dashed if I could see why he couldn't do it with a bright and cheerful smile.
~ p g wodehouse
And, as I mused, the years fell away, hair sprouted on the vast steppes of my head, where never hair has been almost within the memory of man.
~ p g wodehouse
Quem vive não pode se esconder. devagar, tudo acontece conosco. O tempo mesquinho se contrai.
~ Peter Esterhazy
I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.
~ P.C. Cast
do? What happens to Heath?' 'He's young and the Imprint will be weak, so time and distance should make it fade eventually. If he actually Imprinted in full, there
~ P.C. Cast
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Hear that, Eustace? He wishes we were staying a good long time. I expect it will seem a good long time, said Eustace, philosophically.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
A man who forgets what day he was married, when he's been married one year, will forget, at about the end of the fourth, that he's married at all.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
No burglar wastes his time burgling authors.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
And then, just when I was beginning to think I might safely pop down in that direction and gather up the dropped threads, so to speak, time, instead of working the healing wheeze, went and pulled the most awful bone and put the lid on it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
restaurant in the rain, and note what time someone
~ P.G. Wodehouse
What ho, Stinker.' 'Hallo, Bertie.' 'Long time since we met.' 'It is a bit, isn't it?' 'I hear you're a curate now.' 'Yes, that's right.' 'How are the souls?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
But the southwest wind of Spring brings also remorse. We catch the vague spirit of unrest in the air and we regret our misspent youth.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.
~ Pablo Neruda