Quotes about Time

Years sneak by quickly, on tip-toe, scoffing and suddenly they give us a fright in the mirror or smack us on the back. Every minute is precious and we can't waste it on misunderstanding, impatience, jealousy, pettiness, or the other silly stuff that soils relationships. In truth this formula can be applied at any age because it's always the case that our days are limited.

True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

You can't reach perfection unless you reach zero seconds - it's just the constant chase for perfection.

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.