Time Quotes

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

John B. Priestly

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

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.

William Shakespeare

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

C.S. Lewis

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

William Butler Yeats

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Faith Baldwin

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, Maxims

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

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

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

Tillie Olsen

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler

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

Paul Simon

Time is on my side, yes it is.

Mick Jaggar

The times they are a-changing.

Bob Dylan