Quotes about Time
For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Injustice never rules forever.
— Seneca
It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."
— Anonymous
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.
— Aldous Huxley
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
— Anonymous
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, and to a certain extent sacred.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.
— Anonymous
MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well, I know how much you need your sleep, so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.
— Anonymous
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
— Euripides
Who loses a day loses life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson