Quotes about Time
We are so strangely made; the memories that could make us happy pass away; it is the memories that break our hearts that abide.
- Mark Twain
What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient
- Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
- Mark Twain
The Doors Open at 7, The trouble begins at 8.
- Mark Twain
It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.
- Mark Twain
It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.
- Mark Twain
Yes, a genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is five hundred years away easier than he can a thing that's only five hundred seconds off.
- Mark Twain
I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in
- Mark Twain
I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
- Mark Twain
When its steamboat time you steamboat.
- Mark Twain
Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you.
- Mark Twain
Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury.
- Mark Twain