Quotes on Time

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

All things flow, nothing abides.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

Time doth run with calm and silent foot,_x000D_ _x000D_ Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Make a good use of the present.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.