Quotes on Time

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

Live each day as if it be your last.

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.