Quotes about Time
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
— Victor Hugo
Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.
— William Gladstone
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
— Winston Churchill
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
— Anonymous
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
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.
— St. Augustine
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
— Anonymous
Time is the subtle thief of youth.
— John Milton
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
— Elbert Hubbard
Time is an illusion-to orators.
— Elbert Hubbard
Time is a river without banks.
— Marc Chagall
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
— Henry David Thoreau