Quotes About Time

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.

I can picture that old time to myself now, just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer's morning… the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.

But I... never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it.

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

If that thing's [hibernating alien] god... ...gimme that old time religion

The silence was loud, like a scream. I could FEEL [the aliens] outside./ [The aliens'] patience was their strength. Humans measure time in minutes, seconds, MICROSECONDS./ Time never really mattered to the alien only SURVIVAL./ God help me. I was beginning to UNDERSTAND [the aliens].

Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I had ever seen somebody celebrate for a whole 40-second clock. That was ridiculous.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.