Quotes About Time

And then for English verses, he said, they could not be certain of lasting applause, the changes of our language being so great and sudden, that the rarest poems within few years will pass for obsolete; and therefore he used to liken the writers in English verse to ladies, that have their pictures drawn with the clothes now worn, which, though at present never so rich, and never so much in fashion, within a few years hence will make them look like anticks.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Déjà vu.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, they turn 15.

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.