Time Quotes - Page 26

• We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

  Edward Young

  Thinking, Long, Wish

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• A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Wisdom, Hurt

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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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• Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
  To wear away this long age of three hours
  Between our after-supper and bedtime?

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Dancing, Dancer

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.176

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• This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Economics, Meanness

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1772). “The Works of Shakespeare in Twelve Volumes: Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with Notes Explanatory and Critical”, p.41

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• We see which way the stream of time doth run.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Way, Streams

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.436

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

  Frank Dane

  Funny, Money, Talking

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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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• The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

  Edward Young

  Loss, Bells, Notes

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 55

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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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• People find life entirely too time-consuming.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Life, People, Consuming

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• Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Loneliness, Men, Hair

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Lost, Possession

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• Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Leader, Next

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• Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Business, Mistake

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• Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Mom, Mother, Loss

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Birthday, Past, Scrapbooking

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.94

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• In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Political Language, Defense

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

  George Orwell

  Children, Humorous, Eye

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Learning, Usual, Letters

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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