Quotations on Time
Lost time is never found again.
-John H. Aughey
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
-Horace Mann
Time is a great teacher.
-Carl Sandburg
Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.
-Ben Hecht
You may delay, but time will not.
-Benjamin Franklin
Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.
-Norman Cousins
Time is the music of our being. It is to us what water is to fish.
-Jessica Julian
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
-Anonymous
Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away.
-Marcus Aurelius
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
-Pericles
Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Time blows away like grains of sand.
-Annie Lennox
The years teach much which the days never know.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's never enough time unless you're saving it.
-Anonymous
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who LOVE, time is eternity.
-Anonymous
Nature, Time and Patience are the three great physicians.
-Bulgarian Proverb
7/12/99
-Frank and Ernest 7/12/99
The less time elapsed between the time you are doing something that you enjoy and the time you die, the less time you have been old.
-Anonymous
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is like an addiction, you always want more.
-Scott Ishman
Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana.
-Groucho Marx
Here, we don't ever know what time it really is.
-Mike Danner, Indiana resident
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
-Carl Sandburg
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
-Albert Einstein
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted. . . A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away. . . A time to love and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
-The Bible, Ecclesiastes
The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.
-Sidney J. Harris
I'll happily spend six hours figuring out how to do a three-hour job in ten minutes.
-attached in an Ask MetaFilter discussion thread
The butterfly counts not years but moments and has time enough.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-Bertrand Russell
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
-Faith Baldwin
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

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