Quotes About Time

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

I have stood upon Achilles' tomb and heard Troy doubted, Time will doubt of Rome

Is yet within the unread events of time. Thus far, go forth, thou lay, which I will back Against the same given quantity of rhyme, For being as much the subject of attack As ever yet was any work sublime, By those who love to say that white is black. So much the better!—I may stand alone, But would not change my free thoughts for a throne.

You take things coolly, sir,' said Juan. 'Why,' Replied the other, 'what can a man do? There still are many rainbows in your sky, But mine have vanish'd. All, when life is new, Commence with feelings warm, and prospects high; But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

Tomorrow would have given him all, Repaid his pangs, repair'd his fall: Tomorrow would have been the first Of days no more deplored or crust, But bright, and long, and beckoning years, Seen dazzling through the mist of tears, Guerdon of many a painful hour; Tomorrow would have given him power To rule, to shine, to smite, to save— And must it dawn upon his grave?

Time! On whose arbitrary wing The varying hours must flag or fly, Whose tardy winter, fleeting spring, But drag or drive us on to die

Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day.

For time at last sets all things even And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power.

Oh! Many a time and oft had Harold loved, or dream'd he'd loved since Rapture is a dream.

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

no pierdas tiempo, hijo mio, en formar tu gusto, tus modales, tu mente y todo lo que has de tener; pues lo que, hasta cierto punto, seas a los veinte anos, eso, con poca diferencia, seras todo el resto de tu vida

And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happenings that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.