The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
- Finley Peter Dunne
The past cannot be cured.
- Elizabeth I
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
- Bil Keane
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
- John Wooden
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
- William Gibson
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
- Earl Nightingale
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
- Bruce Lee
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
- George Bernard Shaw
Lost time is never found again.
- Benjamin Franklin
Time and tide wait for no man.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
- William Penn
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
- John Lennon
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
- John Dewey
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles M. Schulz
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Bertrand Russell
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
- Coco Chanel
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
- Horace Mann
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
- Jules Verne
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
- Dr. Seuss
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- John Archibald Wheeler
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
- Elizabeth Taylor
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
- Thomas Hardy
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
- Saint Augustine
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
- Khalil Gibran
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
- Barbara Bush
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
- Theophrastus
Forever is composed of nows.
- Emily Dickinson
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
- Max Frisch
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- C. S. Lewis
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
- Napoleon Hill
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
- Golda Meir
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey
Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
- Roy Bean
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
- Mary Kay Ash
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
- Francois Rabelais
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
- Ivan Turgenev
Time, the devourer of all things.
- Ovid
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
- Michael LeBoeuf
Time brings all things to pass.
- Aeschylus
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
- Pericles
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
- Sophocles
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
- Jean Racine
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
- Samuel Smiles
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
- Agatha Christie
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
- Delmore Schwartz
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
- Giordano Bruno
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
- Adam Hochschild
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
- John Wanamaker
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
- Ben Hecht
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
- M. Scott Peck
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
- Dion Boucicault
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
- Tillie Olsen
Time is bunk.
- Douglas Adams
True time is four-dimensional.
- Martin Heidegger
The time I kill is killing me.
- Mason Cooley
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
- Henry Austin Dobson
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
- Samuel Gompers
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
- Charles Lamb
If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
- Richard Cecil
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
- Faith Baldwin
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
- Steven Wright
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
- William Shakespeare
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
- Alan Lakein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
- Friedrich Schiller
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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 M. Barrie
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
- Edwin Way Teale
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
- Marcus Aurelius
My time is now.
- John Turner
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
- Helen Hunt Jackson
Perfection is the child of time.
- Joseph Hall
We have not the time to take our time.
- Eugene Ionesco
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
- Thomas Huxley
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
- Jonathan Carroll
You may delay, but time will not.
- Benjamin Franklin
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
- Mariel Hemingway
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
- Malcolm Forbes
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
- Henry Ford
Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
- Doug Larson
Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
- Sarah McLachlan
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
- Suzan-Lori Parks
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
- Roger Babson
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
- Virgil
The time to hesitate is through.
- Robby Krieger
We must go fast, because the race is against time.
- Anna Held
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
- Steve Jobs