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| Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~ William Faulkner |
| Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~ John Archibald Wheeler |
| 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, |
| The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~ Tillie Olsen, |
| 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 |
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| Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. ~ Author Unknown |
| The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ~ J.K. Rowling, "The Hungarian Horntail," |
| Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~ The Talmud |
Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. ~ Doménico Cieri Estrada |
| Time is making fools of us again. ~ J.K. Rowling |
| El tiempo da buen consejo. ~ Proverb |
| There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ~ Napoleon I, |
| Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~ Faith Baldwin |
| Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can’t they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping – rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas – But, goodness, why need they do it? ~ John Dos Passos |
| How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on. ~ Zall’s Second Law |
The years like great black oxen tread the world
And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
~ William Butler Yeats, |
| Time! the corrector when our judgments err. ~ Lord Byron |
| 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 |
| Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu. ~ Robert Brault |
I am tired of the imposed rhythms of men,
Tethered time, restrained and trained
To a monotonous beat
Digital time blinking exactness
Unliving.
~ Phillip Pulfrey |
| If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| 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 |