Quotes About Time

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Be not bound by the present, but leave nothing to luck.

B?t k? ai d?ng h?c t?p ??u già, dù anh ta ? tu?i hai m??i hay tám m??i.

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?… What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that…. The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have…. Live!

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.