Quotes on Time

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski", and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

It is time now for us to rise from sleep.

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.

Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.

When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.