Quotes About Time

Art is long, life is short.

You're too old for this type of living,' he told

O sofrimento é um longo momento. É impossível dividí-lo em estações. Só podemos registrar os seus humores e relatar suas idas e vindas. Para nós o tempo não avança, apenas anda em círculos, parecendo girar em torno de um núcleo de sofrimento.

I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

Nothing in the world is hidden forever.

Evil report, with time and chance to help it, travels patiently, and travels far.

The past and present rose side by side, at that supreme moment — and the contrast shook me.

Ah! How much happiness there is in life if we will only have the patience to wait for it.

Tarihleri hat?rlamam? istiyorlar. Aman Tanr?m! Ömrümde böyle bir ÅŸey yapmad?m, ÅŸimdi nas?l baÅŸlayay?m?

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey SAT through life.

A confused sensation of having suddenly lost my familiarity with the past, without acquiring any additional clearness of idea in reference to the present or the future, took possession of my mind. Circumstances that were but a few days old, faded back in my memory, as if they had happened months and months since.

Excuse my dress. I was half an hour late this morning. When you lose half an hour in this house, you never can pick it up again, try how you may. -Reverend Finch's wife

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time.As quoted in The Gentle Philosopher Will Durant

The tragedy of life is that it gives us wisdom only when it has stolen youth. Si jeunesse savait, et vieillesse pouvait!—"If youth knew how, and old age could!

Civilization is always older than we think; and under whatever sod we tread are the bones of men and women who also worked and loved, wrote songs and made beautiful things, but whose names and very being have been lost in the careless flow of time.

News, like men, traveled slowly; intelligence of Barbarossa's death in Cilicia took four months to reach Germany.16 Medieval man could eat his breakfast without being disturbed by the industriously collected calamities of the world; or those that came to his ken were fortunately too old for remedy.

The first form of culture is agriculture. It is when man settles down to till the soil and lay up provisions for the uncertain future that he finds time and reason to be civilized.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding"5

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

When a man is interested in the past he writes history; when he is interested in the future he makes it.

only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.