Logo
Category

Time

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…. – Thomas Carlyle

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. – Carl Sandburg

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Déjà vu. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Time heals what reason cannot. – Seneca

The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If you want work well done, select a busy man — the other kind has no time. – Elbert Hubbard

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? – Jack London

Time flies on restless pinions — constant never. – Friedrich Schiller

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. – C.S. Lewis

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. – Saint Augustine

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Time is the wisest counsellor of all. – Pericles

But it seemed to Lucy, in her waking womanhood, that there were other secrets hidden in Greymire; secrets that belonged to her alone, and would some day whisper their message to her heart. – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, “Spring back or Fall in.” – Dave Beard, @Raqhun)

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. – Charles Caleb Colton

Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst. – William Penn

Time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com