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Time quotes
Dean Acheson
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Saint Augustine
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Roger Babson
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Faith Baldwin
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
James M. Barrie
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Ambrose Bierce
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Dion Boucicault
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
Charles Caleb Colton
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Benjamin Disraeli
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Henry Austin Dobson
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
William Faulkner
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not.
Kahlil Gibran
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Doug Larson
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
C. S. Lewis
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Tillie Olsen
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
M. Scott Peck
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
William Penn
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Pericles
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
John B. Priestly
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
David Russell
The Present is a Point just passed.
Carl Sandburg
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Delmore Schwartz
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Henry David Thoreau
As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!
Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Tennessee Williams
Time is the longest distance between two places.
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