Time - Quotes & Sayings

Time was God's first creation.

Walter Lang

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Jules Verne

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

Sophocles

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

The time I kill is killing me.

Mason Cooley

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.

James M. Barrie

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Samuel Smiles

Know how to live the time that is given you.

Dario Fo

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

Anna Held

The present is a point just passed.

David Russell

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

Sarah McLachlan

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Jonathan Carroll

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Francoise Sagan

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Tillie Olsen

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

I took some time out for life.

James L. Brooks

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Roger Babson

Perfection is the child of time.

Joseph Hall

The time to hesitate is through.

Robby Krieger

My time is now.

John Turner

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Dion Boucicault