Quotes
Quotes about Time
Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"
It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."
In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase "Ipse dixit" was introduced into ordinary life.
I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Cæsar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
Nothing is so dear and precious as time.
He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.
I, who have so much and so universally adored this [greek], "excellent mediocrity," of ancient times, and who have concluded the most moderate measure the most perfect, shall I pretend to an unreasonable and prodigious old age?
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
But all in good time.
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time.
In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
I 'm growing old, I'm sixty years;
I 've labored all my life in vain.
In all that time of hopes and fears,
I 've failed my dearest wish to gain.
I see full well that here below
Bliss unalloyed there is for none
My prayer would else fulfilment know--
Never have I seen Carcassonne!
The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.
