Quotes about Time
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
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