Quotes About Time

Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void.

I work because I need to have two thousand francs in my pocket every month, but I have no desire to glorify work either by enthusiasm or envy or emulation. Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void. Who would think of working in a waiting room? While awaiting our turn we chat, we look at the pictures on the walls. But work? There is no point in it, if when our turn comes to go into the next room we shall no longer see anything.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserved.

Solon was under a delusion when he said that a man when he grows old may learn many things—for he can no more learn much than he can run much; youth is the time for any extraordinary toil.

What is the prime of life? May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's?

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

The happier the moment the shorter.

The path of the Sun consists of 360 degrees; but, in order that the shadow may return to the same point of the dial, we are obliged to add, in each year, five days and the fourth part of a day. On this account an intercalary day is given to every fifth year, that the period of the seasons may agree with that of the Sun.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

I shall continue to be anxious about him until he can permit himself some distraction and allow his wound to heal; nothing can do this but acceptance of the inevitable, lapse of time, and surfeit of grief.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.

In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results. Or if, on the other hand, events are limited to the combinations of some finite number, then of necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence.

The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

he would yet do full well to wait for that wisest of all counsellors, Time.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

The biggest mistake we make is to think we have all the time in the world.

The time he wasted ruined his life the time he wasted ruined his future. POET MD HEDAETUL ISLAM