Time Quotes - Page 26

• Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to
  season.
  Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say,
  That Time comes stealing on by night and day?

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Men, Thieves

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Comedy of Errors: Third Series”, p.245, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
  And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
  Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
  But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Night, Wrinkles

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.865, Oxford University Press

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• No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

  William Shakespeare

  Boast

  William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakspere's songs and sonnets, illustr. by J. Gilbert [ed. by H. Staunton. Interleaved.].”, p.65

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• What e'er you are
  That in this desert inaccessible,
  Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
  Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Desert, Shade, Melancholy

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.802, Tyché

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• I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
  since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
  present twelve o'clock at midnight.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Midnight, Twelve

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry IV”, p.69, Penguin

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• Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, Pace, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [328]

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• I that please some, try all, both joy and terror
  Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

  William Shakespeare

  Errors, Joy, Trying

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.244, A&C Black

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• What else may hap, to time I will commit.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Fortune, Commit

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.258

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• Our planet has run out of patience. So has our sense of justice. It is time to step it up - and up - and up - until we reach the only goal that really matters: peace among people and peace between people and nature.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Running, People, Justice

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• Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

  Frank Dane

  Funny, Money, Talking

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• Time is the image of eternity.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Eternity

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• My memories are not of time but of times.

  Harold Taylor

  Memories, Stress

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• We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Choices, Saving, Killing

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• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  Katharine Butler Hathaway

  Memorable, Realizing, Valuable

  Katharine Butler Hathaway (1946). “The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith”

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• He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

  Joseph Addison

  Years, Honor, Age

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• A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

  George Ade

  Best Friend, Funny Friend, Useless

  George Ade (1903). “People You Know”

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• The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Yesterday, Waiting

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.175, Verso

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• We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

  Alvin Ailey

  Creative, Chasing, Fund

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• Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Standup Comic". A CD compilation of Allen comedy routines from 1964-1968, 1999.

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• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Morning, Cutting

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  W. H. Auden

  Birthday, Money, Hymns

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• Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

  Francis Bacon

  Business, People, Judging

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• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Love, Years, Car

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

  Roland Barthes

  Sarcastic, Truth, Sarcasm

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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