Quotes on Time

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.