Quotes about Time
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
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
— Golda Meir
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