Quotes about Time
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
- Will Rogers
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
- Will Rogers
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
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
- William Faulkner
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
- William Faulkner
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
- William Faulkner
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
- William Gladstone
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
- William Golding
One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.
- William Hazlitt
The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.
- William Hazlitt
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.
- William James