TIME

Related Subjects: Age, Antiquity, Day, Delay, Eternity, Hours, Lateness, Memory, Minute, Month, Procrastination, Sun-Dial, Year

1. I consider time as an immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.—ADDISON, The Spectator
   

2. Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.—AESCHYLUS, Prometheus
   

3. Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.—JOHN BURROUGHS, The Spell of the Past
   

4. There's a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

5. The tyme, that may not sojourne,
   But goth, and never may retourne,
   As water that doun renneth ay,
   But never drope retourne may.—CHAUCER, The Romaunt of the Rose
   

6. Touch us gently, Time!
   Let us glide adown thy stream
   Gently,—as we sometimes glide
   Through a quiet dream.—BARRY CORNWALL, A Petition to Time
   

7. I know that our inheritance is held in store for us by Time. I know there is a sea of Time to rise one day, before which all who wrong us or oppress us will be swept away like leaves. I see it, on the flow!—DICKENS, The Chimes
   

8. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.—DICKENS, A Tale of Two Cities
   

9. Time is the image of eternity.—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Plato
   

10. It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Theophrastus
    

11. Time goes, you say? Ah no!
    Alas, Time stays, we go.—AUSTIN DOBSON, The Paradox of Time
    

12. There is only one time in life for milk, only one time for youth; we cannot postpone life or retrace its milestones, and what is once lost is lost forever.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Art of Life
    

13. Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.—EMERSON, History
    

14. Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.—EURIPIDES, Aeolus
    

15. The time God allots to each one of us is like a precious tissue which we embroider as we best know how.—ANATOLE FRANCE, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
    

16. Remember that time is money.—FRANKLIN, Advice to a Young Tradesman
    

17. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
    

18. As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.—HAZLITT, The Feeling of Immortality in Youth
    

19. Thursday come, and the week is gone.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
    

20. Time, you old gipsy man,
    Will you not stay,
    Put up your caravan Just for one day?—RALPH HODGSON, Time, You Old Gipsy Man
    

21. Blood of the world, time stanchless flows;
    The wound is mortal and is mine.—ALDOUS HUXLEY, Seasons
    

22. It is always the puzzle of the nature of time that brings our thoughts to a standstill. And if time is so fundamental that an understanding of its true nature is for ever beyond our reach, then so also in all probability is a decision in the age-long controversy between determinism and free-will.—SIR JAMES JEANS, The Mysterious Universe
    

23. That old bald cheater, Time.—BEN JONSON, The Poetaster
    

24. Time, that aged nurse,
    Rock'd me to patience.—KEATS, Endymion
    

25. The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on : nor all your piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.—OMAR KHAYYAM, Rubaiyat
    

26. Time has laid his hand
    Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
    But as a harper lays his open palm
    Upon his harp to deaden its vibrations.—LONGFELLOW, The Golden Legend
    

27. Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.—THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
    

28. Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.—THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
    

29. Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
    

30. Stand still, you ever moving spheres of heaven,
    That time may cease, and midnight never come.—CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Faustus
    

31. Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals.—H. L. MENCKEN, A Book of Prefaces
    

32. Oh glory, that we wrestle
    So valiantly with Time!—R. M. MILNES, The Eld
    

33. Whatever thing
    The scythe of Time mows down.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

34. Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time.—NAPOLEON
    

35. Time hath a taming hand.—CARDINAL NEWMAN, Persecution
    

36. Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.—PLUTARCH, Lives
    

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

38. The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.—MARCEL PROUST, Within a Budding Grove
    

39. Time and tide wait for no man.—Proverb
    

40. Every scrap of a wise man's time is worth saving.—Proverb
    

41. Take time by the forelock.—Proverb
    

42. He that has most time has none to lose.—Proverb
    

43. As good have no time, as make no good use of it.—Proverb
    

44. To repair the irreparable ravages of time.—RACINE, Athalie
    

45. Time will rust the sharpest sword,
    Time will consume the strongest cord;
    That which moulders hemp and steel,
    Mortal arm and nerve must feel.—SCOTT, Harold the Dauntless
    

46. Ah! the clock is always slow;
    It is later than you think.—ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE, It Is Later Than You Think
    

47. The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
    

48. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

49. And then he drew a dial from his poke,
    And looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
    Says, very wisely, "It is ten o'clock:
    Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

50. There's a time for all things.—SHAKESPEARE, The Comedy of Errors
    

51. But I will fit it with some better time.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

52. Come what come may,
    Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

53. What seest thou else
    In the dark backward and abysm of time?—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

54. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,
    Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

55. Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
    

56. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
    So do our minutes hasten to their end.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet LX
    

57. Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.—ALEXANDER SMITH, Dreamthorp
    

58. Time goes by turns, and chances change by course,
    From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.—ROBERT SOUTHWELL, Times Go by Turns
    

59. The day before yesterday always has been a glamor day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum Pipe.—VINCENT STARRETT, Buried Caesars
    

60. If time be heavy on your hands,
    Are there no beggars at your gate,
    Nor any poor about your lands?
    Oh! teach the orphan-boy to read,
    Or teach the orphan-girl to sew.—TENNYSON, Lady Clara Vere de Vere
    

61. I know that age to age succeeds,
    Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,
    A dust of .systems and of creeds.—TENNYSON, The Two Voices
    

62. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.—THOREAU, Walden
    

63. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.—THOREAU, Walden
    

64. Time is infinite movement without one moment of rest.—TOLSTOY, War and Peace
    

65. It is later than you think.—Traditional: Sun-dial inscription
    

66. Wait, thou child of hope, for Time shall teach thee all things.—MARTIN F. TUPPER, Of Good in Things Evil