Time Quotes

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

• Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

• Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

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