Time - "Quotes"

Quotes through the ages from around the globe...

"I've been on a calendar but I have never been on time"
Marilyn Monroe

"The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time"
Leo Kennedy

"Time nor tide wait for no man/woman"

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

"Time and tide wait for none."

"A stitch in time saves nine."

"The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realise you're not in shape for it, it's far too far to walk back."
Franklin P Jones

Hanson's Treatment of Time:
There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday.

"Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles"
Arnold H Glasgow

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
Milton Berle

"Time, the subtle thief of youth"
John Milton Sonnets 7

"And he that will not apply New Remedies, must expect New Evils; for Time is the greatest Innovator."
Francis Bacon Essays: Of Innovations

"Who knows but the world may end tonight"
Robert Browning The Last Ride Together

"Lost time is never found again"
Benjamin Franklin Ibid 1743

"Remember that time is money"
Benjamin Franklin Advice to a Young Tradesman

"No woman in my time will be Prime Minister..."
Margaret Thatcher The Sunday Telegraph, 1969

"Tempus fugit" (time flies)
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Fasti

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

"Time is the great physician"
Benjamin Disraeli Endymion

"There's plenty of time to win this game..."
Sir Francis Drake On sighting the Spanish Armada - 1588

"There's a gude time coming"
Sir Walter Scott Rob Roy

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

"O, call back yesterday, bid time return"
William Shakespeare King Richard II

"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for hours will take care of themselves"
Philip Dormer Stanhope - 4th Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son

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

"Procrastination is the thief of time"
Edward Young Night Thoughts 1742-1746

"Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once"
Anon

"Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus"
(Time meanwhile flies, never to return)
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

"Potius sero quad numquam"
(Better late than never)
Titus Livius (Prologue to History, Book IV sec)

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

"The times they are a-changing."
Bob Dylan

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

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

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

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