Quotations about

Time

All my possessions for a moment of time.

—Elizabeth I

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

—Jef Mallett

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

—Jim Bishop

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

—John F. Kennedy

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

—John F. Kennedy

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

—John Ruskin

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

—Malcolm Forbes

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

—Maria Edgeworth

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

—Mark Twain

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

—Mason Cooley

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

—Max Frisch

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

—Oscar Levant

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

—Paul Klee

So little time and so little to do.

—Plutarch

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson