Time Quotes

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

So little time and so little to do.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.