Quotes about Time

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.