Quotes about Time
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
I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
- Dante Alighieri
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
- Soren Kierkegaard
God and a soldier all .people adore In time of war, but not before; And when war is over and all things are righted, God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.
- Anonymous
Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.
- Anonymous