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William Shakespeare6 quotes
The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. — William Shakespeare · 1602Time’s the king of men.
He’s both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare · 1608I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. — William Shakespeare · 1595Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end. — William Shakespeare · 1609Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defense. — William Shakespeare · 1609Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. — William Shakespeare · 1594Horace2 quotes
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. — Horace · 14 BCWhile we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future. — Horace · 23 BCJulian Barnes2 quotes
We live in time—it holds us and molds us—but I've never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing—until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return. — Julian Barnes · 2011I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory. — Julian Barnes · 2011Marcus Aurelius2 quotes
Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Time is a violent torrent; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Thomas Mann2 quotes
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. — Thomas Mann · 1924For time is the medium of narration, as it is the medium of life. Both are inextricably bound up with it, as inextricably as are bodies in space. Similarly, time is the medium of music; music divides, measures, articulates time, and can shorten it, yet enhance its value, both at once. — Thomas Mann · 1924Virgil2 quotes
But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying. — Virgil · 29 BCTime bears away all things, even our minds. — Virgil · 30 BC40-Year-Old Mattie Ross1 quote
Time just gets away from us. — 40-Year-Old Mattie Ross · 2010Aeschylus1 quote
But ever-ageing Time teaches all things. — Aeschylus · 424 BCAlan Watts1 quote
Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality. — Alan Watts · 1957Albert Einstein1 quote
The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent. — Albert Einstein · 1955Alice Walker1 quote
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. — Alice Walker · 1982Alphonse de Lamartine1 quote
O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days. — Alphonse de Lamartine · 1820Aristotle1 quote
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time. — Aristotle · 350 BCBenjamin Disraeli1 quote
Time is the great physician. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1837Benjamin Franklin1 quote
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. — Benjamin Franklin · 1746Bill Watterson1 quote
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. — Bill Watterson · 1988Brand1 quote
Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but...it can't run backwards. Just can't. The only thing that can move across dimensions, like time, is gravity. — Brand · 2014C.S. Lewis1 quote
We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Edward Gibbon1 quote
The abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life. — Edward Gibbon · 1794Edward Young1 quote
Procrastination is the thief of time. — Edward Young · 1742Gandalf1 quote
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. — Gandalf · 2001Hector Berlioz1 quote
Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. — Hector Berlioz · 1856Isaac Watts1 quote
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day. — Isaac Watts · 1719J.R.R. Tolkien1 quote
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954James Bramston1 quote
What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand? — James Bramston · 1729Jean de La Bruyere1 quote
Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. — Jean de La Bruyere · 1688John Milton1 quote
Time, the subtle thief of youth. — John Milton · 1645Krishna1 quote
I am mighty Time, the source of destruction that comes forth to annihilate the worlds. — Krishna · 200 BCLeo Tolstoy1 quote
The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy · 1869Lewis Mumford1 quote
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age. — Lewis Mumford · 1934