I have seen a flower blooming in beauty in a secluded vale, and, ere I had a chance to look again, a chilly breath of air had scattered its petals and left it a ruin. – Charles Lanman, “Musings,” 1840
Time is that stuff between paydays. – Leo Ochs
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. – William Faulkner
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. – Osbert Sitwell
Every day a thread makes a skein in the year. – Dutch Proverb
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. – Benjamin Disraeli
Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. – Author Unknown
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. – J.M. Barrie
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. – John B. Priestly
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. – Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815
Time gives good advice. (El tiempo da buen consejo.) – Spanish proverb
Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. – The Talmud
When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said, “Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.” – Author Unknown
I hear the heartthrob of time in my veins. – Terri Guillemets
Time is making fools of us again. – J.K. Rowling
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. – William Makepeace Thackeray
Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Time! the corrector when our judgments err. – Lord Byron
