Quotes About Time

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Theology that steps back in time only to hide there from the problems to be faced in the present ends up hidebound and moribund. Or, worse, it becomes an empty scholasticism that refuses to attend to the needs of the present, accepting only what has been hallowed by time and use, as if it is sufficient to look backward without looking forward.

Thus idly busy rolls their world away

Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.

It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

we must wait two hundred years for the next name of great magnitude; moreover

Jupiter takes 4332 days to make one revolution); then

Tycho Brahé from 1546 to 1601. Kepler from 1571 to 1630. Galileo from 1564 to 1642. Gilbert from 1540 to 1603. Francis Bacon from 1561 to 1626. Descartes from 1596 to 1650.

e.g. the sky looks the same at midnight on the 1st of October as it does at 10 p.m. on the 1st of November.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time!

Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time?... It was a great happiness to have been born in an old house haunted by such recollections, with harmless ghosts walking its corridors, with fields of waving grass and trees and singing birds...

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.