Browse 11715 quotes about Time.
“See the minutes, how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.”
“So many hours must I take my rest;
So many hours must I contemplate.”
Source: The Third Part of King Henry VI
“Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Pass'd over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this!”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations
“We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage
“Beauty, wit,
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time.”
“The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.”
“Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little time.”
“Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.”
“Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.”
Source: The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)
“If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?”
“A word of the faith that never balks,
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Six years-six little years-six drops of time.”
Source: Poems ... A new edition
“Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.
By-and-by has no end.”
“Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.”
Source: Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals
“Time was made for slaves.”
“Some wee short hour ayont the twal.”
Source: The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry
“Nae man can tether time or tide.”
“Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly;
To every day we live, a day we die.”
Source: The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion
“That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,
That round and round still turns with onward might,
Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night
Of an unknown hereafter.”
“Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Touch us gently, Time!
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently,-as we sometimes glide
Through a quiet dream!”
“Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.”
Source: Poems of William Cowper, Esq
“See Time has touched me gently in his race,
And left no odious furrows in my face.”
Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes
“Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.”
Source: Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9
“Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.”
Source: A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe
“When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.”
“And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
With pens of adamant on plates of brass.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
“Let us leave hurry to slaves.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element.
Time is itself an element.”
“Rich with the spoils of time.”
“Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.”
“Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?
What does not destructive time destroy?”
“How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.”
“That old bald cheater, Time.”
Source: Complete Critical Edition: 4. Cynthia's Revels; Poetaster; Sejanus; Eastward Ho
“Time's waters will not ebb nor stay.”
Source: The Christian Year ... [By John Keble.] Fourth Edition
“Better late than never.”
“What we want, we have for our pains
The promise that if we but wait
Till the want has burned out of our brains,
Every means shall be present to state;
While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold,
While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old,
When we've matched our buttons the pattern is sold,
And everything comes too late-too late.”
“Such phantom blossoms palely shining
Over the lifeless boughs of Time.”
Source: Spoon River Anthology
“However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.”
“Who can undo
What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
Reckon lost music from a broken lute?
Renew the redness of a last year's rose?
Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?”
“When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.”
“For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.”
“Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci;
Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi.
In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.”
“Tempus edax rerum.
Time that devours all things.”
“Temporis ars medicina fere est.
Time is generally the best medicine.”