Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jorge Luis Borges

The time for your labor has been granted.

Joni Mitchell

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

Jonathan Swift

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Khaled Hosseini

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Khalil Gibran

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

Khalil Gibran

And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Khalil Gibran

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

Jonathan Swift

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.

Jonathan Swift

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Napoleon Hill

Time is valuable, and when it is gone, it is gone. Time is wealth, and unlike money, when it is gone, you cannot replace it

Jacob Bronowski

Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

Hartley Coleridge

If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.

Louise Erdrich

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

Louise Erdrich

Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

Glenn Hoddle

The end of the season's come at the wrong time for both.

Henry B. Eyring

Invest time that will compound forever.

Hector Berlioz

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried.

Henry David Thoreau

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

Henry David Thoreau

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

James Joyce

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

James Joyce

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

James Joyce

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

James Joyce

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

James Russell Lowell

Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

James Russell Lowell

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

James Russell Lowell

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

James Russell Lowell

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"