Quotes about Time

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?