Quotes about time

"The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist."

Carlyle, Thomas on time   

"Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time   

"Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share."

Greene, Graham on time   

"The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental."

Huxley, Thomas H. on time   

"Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on time   

"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make."

Lincoln, Abraham on time   

"Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy."

Lowell, James Russell on time   

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"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way."

Maugham, W. Somerset on time   

"A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."

Wilde, Oscar on time   

"Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought."

Addison, Joseph on time
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"I cannot afford to waste my time making money."

Agassiz, Louis on time   

"Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe."

Angelou, Maya on time
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"He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave."

Arthorne, John on time   

"To choose time is to save time."

Bacon, Francis on time   

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"Time is the measure of business."

Bacon, Francis on time   

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"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."

Baldwin, Faith on time   

"The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy."

Ballard, J. G. on time   

"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose."

Baudelaire, Charles on time   

"A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on time   

"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day."

Beecher, Henry Ward on time   

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

Beecher, Henry Ward on time   

"The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions."

Bennet, Arnold on time   

"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive."

Bennett, Arnold on time   

"We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is."

Bennett, Thomas A. on time   

"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."

Berger, John on time   

"There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over."

Bergman, Jack on time   

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

Berlioz, Hector Louis on time
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"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]"

Bible on time   

"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

Billings, Josh on time
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"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."

Bixton, Charles on time
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"The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure."

Blake, William on time   

"A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant."

Book, William Frederick on time   

"I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule."

Boone, Louis E. on time
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"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on time   

"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."

Borges, Jorge Luis on time   

"Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment."

Brisbane, Arthur on time   

"I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting."

Brown, John Mason on time   

"Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance."

Buscaglia, Leo on time
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"You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."

Buxton, Charles on time   

"Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!"

Byron, Lord on time