Time quotes

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis, Money


The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle


Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault


In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell


For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson


But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli


Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson


Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens


If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. ~Elbert Hubbard


Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ~Jack London


Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. ~Friedrich Schiller


The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~C.S. Lewis


Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? ~Paracelsus


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. ~Saint Augustine


Each moment has its sickle, emulous
Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep
Strikes empires from the root.
~Edward Young


The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. ~Martin H. Fischer


Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles


A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. ~Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried


Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Time is the best teacher

Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz


Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus

Histories make men wise.
Francis Bacon