Famous Time Quotes - Famous Quotes about Time
A loafer always has the correct time.
- Kin Hubbard
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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
- Segal's Law
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All great achievements require time.
- Maya Angelou
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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
- Victor Borge
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I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.
- Ellen DeGeneres
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
- Bernard Berenson
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I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
- Marilyn Monroe
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If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
- Anonymous
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In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
- Osbert Sitwell
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It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
- Hofstadter's Law
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
- Marcus Aurelius Antonius
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
- George Eliot
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The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life. -- (Sometimes a Little Brain Damage Can Help, 1984)
- George Carlin
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The days of the digital watch are numbered.
- Tom Stoppard
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The obscurest epoch is to-day.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Bertrand Russell
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There's time enough, but none to spare.
- Charles W. Chesnutt
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Time and Tide wait for no man,
but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
- Robert Frost
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Time as he grows old teaches all things.
- Aeschylus
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- Aristotle
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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams
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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
- John Randolph
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Time is bunk.
- Douglas Adams
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
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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
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
- John Steinbeck
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Peter F. Drucker
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Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
- John Archibald Wheeler
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Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician.
- Anonymous
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Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
- Ivan Turgenev
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
- Euripides
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
- Amy Lowell
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Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.
- Thomas Campion
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Time's fun when you're having flies. (Kermit the Frog)
- Jim Henson
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When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
- Marcel Achard
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Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
- Woody Allen
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Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.
- Mike Tyson
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. I'd like to thank you for giving me a part of your life tonight.
- Wayne Newton
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You know, sometimes, when they say you are ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
- George McGovern
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You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
- George McGovern
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