Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It’s passing, yet I’m the one who’s doing all the moving. ~ Martin Amis,

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

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~ Dion Boucicault

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell

For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~ Doug Larson

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ~ Henry Austin Dobson

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. ~ Charles Dickens

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. ~ Author Unknown

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~ Antonio Porchia,

It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ~ J.K. Rowling, "The Hungarian Horntail,"

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~ The Talmud

Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. ~ Doménico Cieri Estrada

Time is making fools of us again. ~ J.K. Rowling

El tiempo da buen consejo. ~ Proverb

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,

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~ Faith Baldwin

Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can’t they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping – rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas – But, goodness, why need they do it? ~ John Dos Passos

How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on. ~ Zall’s Second Law

The years like great black oxen tread the world And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind. ~ William Butler Yeats,

Time! the corrector when our judgments err. ~ Lord Byron

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 Deja Vu. ~ Robert Brault

I am tired of the imposed rhythms of men, Tethered time, restrained and trained To a monotonous beat Digital time blinking exactness Unliving. ~ Phillip Pulfrey

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

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

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? ~ Paracelsus

The time you think you’re missing, misses you too. ~ Ymber Delecto

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

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time’s enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root. ~ Edward Young

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. ~ Martin H. Fischer

Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~ Pericles

Time is the only thief we can’t get justice against. ~ Astrid Alauda

There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. ~Mignon McLaughlin,

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

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. ~ Willaim Penn

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

Can an afternoon revert? ~ Carrie Latet

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right – it holds my golden time! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. ~ Antonio Porchia,

Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time. ~ Edward Fitzgerald

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

Time, the cradle of hope…. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The Present is a Point just passed. ~ David Russell

Methinks I see the wanton hours flee, And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me. ~ George Villiers

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. ~ Denis Waitely

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

One must learn a different… sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ~Sister Mary Paul

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~ Louis Hector Berlioz

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ~ Tony Hendra

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

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~ John Archibald Wheeler