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Famous Quotations about Time and Time Travel
listed in alphabetical order by author's last name

Time is the only thief we can't get justice against. ~Astrid Alauda

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you. ~Lisa Alther

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. ~Michael Althsuler

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis

We do not see our universe at it is, we see the universe as we are.
~David Lewis Anderson

Paradoxes are simply places where our rational minds bump into their own limitations. ~David Lewis Anderson

We do not see space, time and the universe the way they are, we see space, time and the universe the way we are. ~David Lewis Anderson

To do one must first imagine. ~David Lewis Anderson

Time has always shown that the potential possibilities of any young mind may simply be the most fascinating, stimulating and powerful concept in our universe. ~David Lewis Anderson

Time does not exist. It is simply an illusion of our mind created by our own biological and cultural evolution. ~David Lewis Anderson

People do not want to understand time because it is linked to their own mortality. ~David Lewis Anderson

Time is a very curious thing. Ask anyone on the street if they know what time is. They are sure to answer yes. But then, ask them to explain it to you and they will almost certainly be at a loss for words. ~David Lewis Anderson

Magical, frightening, and God-like are three words that humans might use to describe a fourth-dimensional being if it passed into and through our three-dimensional world. ~David Lewis Anderson

In this century, history will almost certainly become an experimental science. Time will no longer tell. ~David Lewis Anderson

Today’s scientists are simply rediscovering the ancient wisdom that shows the sense of wonder that connects us with the universe and God. ~David Lewis Anderson

Time does not exist independently of ourselves, it is simply an illusion and measurement of our minds and body’s perceptions. ~David Lewis Anderson

Those who see the true nature of our universe and reality see that it is a fabric woven only of information and energy. Concepts such as elementary particles, space, time, material substance and isolated objects simply are illusions that do not exist and have lost their meaning. ~David Lewis Anderson

One should not underestimate the possibility that thinking, which is an energy-mediated process, might all time viewing, time travel and phenomenon such as precognition. ~David Lewis Anderson

The true nature of the spacetime continuum is a simple and beautiful picture of the harmony and alignment of science, religion and philosophy. ~David Lewis Anderson

In the future people will realize and understand that we, the universe, and everything in it are all part of the same, inseparable, dynamic web of energy. This understanding will usher the masses into deeply personal, thoughtful and inspiring journeys that will help them find their true place in the universe, and the universe within themselves. ~David Lewis Anderson

True understanding lies in looking beyond our own perceived reality which is simply a microscopic image of the very real macroscopic universe in which we live. ~David Lewis Anderson

Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once. ~Anonymous

The bird of time has not far to fly, And the bird is on the wing! ~Anonymous

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. ~Anonymous

Success does not come to those who wait... and it does not wait for anyone to come to it. ~Anonymous

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. ~Anonymous

Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely. ~Anonymous

Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. ~Anonymous

"Don't see things as they are, and ask why. See things as they could be, and ask, why not?" ~Anonymous

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong as its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be, be one. ~Marcus Aurelius

To choose time is to save time. ~Francis Bacon

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time. ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. ~James Matthew Barrie

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Louis Hector Berlioz

Baseball player: "What time is it?" "You mean now?" ~Yogi Berra

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ~Ambrose Bierce

There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ~Josh Billings

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. ~Jim Bishop

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ~Charles Bixton

"This life's five windows of the soul.
Distort the heavens from pole to pole.
And teach us to believe a lie.
When we see with, not through, the eye." ~William Blake

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." ~Margaret Bonanno

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule. ~Louis E. Boone

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ~Jorge Luis Borges

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu. ~Robert Brault

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it? ~Anna Robertson Brown

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~H. Jackson Brown

Who knows but the world may end tonight. ~Robert Browning

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made; Our times are in his hand who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid! ~Robert Browning

Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. ~Jean De La Bruyere

Time! the corrector when our judgments err. ~Lord Byron

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~Art Buchwald

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. ~Miguel de Cervantes

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves. ~Lord Chesterfield

You're writing the story of your life one moment at a time. ~Doc Childre and Howard Martin

"You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself." ~Deepak Chopra

"This moment is as it should be." ~Deepak Chopra

"Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on." ~Deepak Chopra

"It is your understanding that is going to change your reality." ~Deepak Chopra

DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter. ~Deepak Chopra

Commit yourself to deeper awareness. Be generous of spirit. Embrace every day as a new world. Let the timeless be in charge of time. ~Deepak Chopra

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock. ~Deepak Chopra

The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery. ~Deepak Chopra

All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you. ~Deepak Chopra

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self. ~Deepak Chopra

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless. ~Deepak Chopra

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless. ~Deepak Chopra

Our body is the place that our memories and dreams call home for the time being. ~Deepak Chopra

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging. ~Deepak Chopra

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. ~Winston Churchill

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. ~Michael Cibenko

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. ~Mason Cooley

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. ~Stephen R. Covey

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. ~Steven Covey

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. ~Leonardo Da Vinci
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. ~Charles Darwin

The time you think you're missing, misses you too. ~Ymber Delecto

Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire. ~John Dewey

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. ~Charles Dickens

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. ~Laertius Diogenes

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake. ~Diogenes

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli
Life is too short to be small. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson

The times they are a-changing. ~Bob Dylan

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ~Earl of Chesterfield

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. ~Maria Edgeworth

There is time for everything. ~Thomas Edison

Everything comes to him that hustles while he waits. ~Thomas Edison

All my possessions for a moment of time. ~Elizabeth I

"We shall not cease from exploration - And the end of all our exploring - Will be to arrive where we started - And know the place for the first time." ~T. S. Eliot

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fill the hour - that is happiness. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is never too late to become what you might have been. ~George Eliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Eliot

Time is the great physician. ~Benjamin Disraeli Endymion

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. ~Ted W. Engstrom

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. ~Euripides

Tempus fugit (time flies). ~Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Fasti

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words; "I did not have time". ~Franklin Field

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. ~Martin H. Fischer

Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time.
~Edward Fitzgerald

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. ~Henry Ford

Lost time is never found again. ~Benjamin Franklin

Remember that time is money. ~Benjamin Franklin

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ~Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not. ~Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. ~Benjamin Franklin

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. ~Bonnie Friedman

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself." ~Galileo

The right man is the one who seizes the moment. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We always have time enough if we will but use it aright. ~Goethe

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. ~Baltasar Gracian

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. ~Baltasar Gracian

Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. ~Francis Gray

Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment. ~Dag Hammarskjold

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. ~William Hazlitt

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. ~Ben Hecht

 After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. ~ W. Heisenberg

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ~Tony Hendra

It is time to break through the barriers that have held you back and held you down for such a long time. It is time to reach out and indelibly etch your place in history. ~Greg Hickman

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good. ~Ernest Holmen

Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time! ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. ~Elbert Hubbard

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. ~Elbert Hubbard

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. ~Victor Hugo

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." ~Zora Neale Hurston

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got. ~Lee Iacocca

Veritum dies aperit (Time discovers the truth). ~Seneca De Ira

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ~Andrew Jackson

Time is on my side, yes it is. ~Mick Jaggar

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. ~Japanese Proverb

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. ~Thomas Jefferson

Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of. ~P. Johnstone

It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;
Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;
I'll wind thee up no more.
~Ben Jonson

"At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else." ~Florynce Kennedy

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. ~John F. Kennedy

"Some see things as they are, and ask why?
I dream things that never were, and ask why not?"  ~Robert F. Kennedy

The time is always right to do what is right. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time is equal to life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. ~Alan Lakein

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” ~Lao-Tzu

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard

Times don't change. Men do. ~Sam Levenson

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~C.S. Lewis

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little left of it. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life. ~P. W. Litchfield

Potius sero quad numquam (Better late than never). ~Titus Livius

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. ~Jack London

It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. ~Sir John Lubbock

“Traveler, there is no path; paths are made by walking.” ~Antonio Machado

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can send it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back. ~Harvey Mackay

"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are." ~H.H. Vishwaguru Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda (Swamiji)

"Your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now." ~Judith Malina

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. ~Horace Mann

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. ~Groucho Marx

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. ~W. Somerset Maugham

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over? ~Jeffery J. Mayer

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. ~Mignon McLaughlin

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ~Napoleon I

Never let yesterday use up today. ~Richard H. Nelson

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. ~Mary O’Connor

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. ~Georgia O’Keefe

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie Olsen

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator. ~Robert Orben

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise... ~Sir William Osler

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. ~Ovid

Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. ~Sara Paddison

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? ~Paracelsus

One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ~Sister Mary Paul

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs". ~Norman Vincent Peale

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ~M. Scott Peck

Time is the wisest counselor of all. ~Pericles

Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. ~Willaim Penn

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. ~Plutarch

Some people will never learn anything.....because they understand everything too soon. ~Alexander Pope

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~Antonio Porchia

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. ~Antonio Porchia

"People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing." ~John Porter

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ~John B. Priestly

Lost time is never found again. ~Proverb

I am tired of the imposed rhythms of men,
Tethered time, restrained and trained
To a monotonous beat
Digital time blinking exactness
Unliving.
~Phillip Pulfrey

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. ~John Randolph

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. ~Marie B. Ray

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week. ~Charles Richards

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! ~Anthony Robbins

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it. ~Jim Rohn

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ~J.K. Rowling

Time is making fools of us again. ~J.K. Rowling

Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything. ~Rumi

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~Bertrand Russell

The Present is a Point just passed. ~David Russell
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

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. ~Friedrich Schiller

Tough times never last, but tough people do! ~Robert Schuller

Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
~William Shakespeare

O, call back yesterday, bid time return. ~William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. ~William Shakespeare

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. ~Chuck Sigars

Time, time, time, see what's become of me,
While I looked around,
For my possibilities;
I was so hard to please"
~ Paul Simon

When the time is right, you just got to do it. ~Jack Simplot

Watches are so named as a reminder - if you don't watch carefully what you do with your time, it will slip away from you. ~Drew Sirtors

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for hours will take care of themselves. ~Philip Dormer Stanhope

El tiempo da buen consejo. ~Proverb

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. ~Bonnie Prudden

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. ~Ayn Rand

“A hidden Bliss is at the root of things.
A mute Delight regards Time’s countless works:
To house God’s joy in things Space gave wide room,
To house God’s joy in self our souls were born.”
~Sri Aurobindo, “Savitri”

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ~Dr. Laura Schlessinger

All great achievements require time. ~David J. Schwartz

Time heals what reason cannot. ~Seneca

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. ~Samuel Smiles

Time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked. ~Sir Noel Coward Blithe Spirit

"Confidence never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions." - ~Earl Gray Stevens

"There can be change without progress, but not progress without change." – Swamiji

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ~Tagore

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~The Talmud

"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you." ~Tennessee Williams

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. ~Theophrastus

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. ~Henry David Thoreau

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau

It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? ~Henry David Thoreau

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." ~James Thurber

Your greatest resource is your time. ~Brian Tracy

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~Mark Twain

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. ~Author Unknown

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute. ~Robert Updegraff

Methinks I see the wanton hours flee,
And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
~George Villiers

Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus (Time meanwhile flies, never to return). ~Virgil

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. ~Denis Waitely

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. ~Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. ~Denis Waitley

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. ~Andy Warhol

There'll be two dates on your tombstone/ And all your friends will read 'em/ But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em... ~Kevin Welch

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free. ~Marcia Wieder

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ~Oscar Wilde

Time is the longest distance between two places. ~Tennessee Williams

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. ~Alexander Woollcott

The years like great black oxen tread the world
And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
~William Butler Yeats

Each moment has its sickle, emulous
Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep
Strikes empires from the root.
~Edward Young

Procrastination is the thief of time. ~Edward Young

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ~Eva Young

How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on. ~Zall's Second Law

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever. ~Zig Ziglar