Category Archives: Clock Quotes

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead.
– Robert De Niro

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
– Marcel Proust

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think scientists should stop wasting valuable resources trying to cure cancer and focus on more important issues, like keeping me from drooling in my sleep.
– Bill Hewins

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe. It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.
– Bill Bryson

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
– Dale Carnegie

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are as old as the last time you changed your mind.
– Tim O’Leary

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
– Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-73)

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
– Thomas S. Szasz

To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
– Robert Anson Heinlein

Take the time to come home to yourself everyday.
– Robin Casarjean

If you love life, do not waste time, because time is what life is made of.
– Bruce Lee.

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
– J. P. McEvoy

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1821 – 1881

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
– Sydney J. Harris

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
– Tennessee Williams

Saw a sign on a restaurant that said “Breakfast, any time” – so I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.
– Steven Wright

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.
– John Lennon

There is time for everything.
– Thomas Alva Edison

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
– Miguel de Cervantes

The best way to fill time is to waste it.
– Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

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

Punctuality is the thief of time.
– Oscar Wilde

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

Spring is here once again, the time when flowers begin to bud, birds sing sweetly and primal urges send men and women searching for that elusive joy in life – tax deductions.
– Matt Wixon

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
– Leontyne Price

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
– Ernest Hemingway

Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on – not for looking at.
– Noel Coward

Love is space and time measured by the heart.
– Marcel Proust

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I’d pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
– Wystan Hugh Auden

Times change and men deteriorate.
– Gesta Romanorum

We all find time to do what we really want to do.
– William Feather

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
– Albert Einstein

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
– Benjamin Rush

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
– Louis L’Amour

Love and time – those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.
– Gary Jennings

If you love life, do not squander time. For that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Time wounds all heels.
– Jane Ace

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
– Napoleon Hill

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.
– The Talmud

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
– Taisen Deshimaru

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
– Quentin Crisp

Time is slippery.
– Kim Linder

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
– Segal’s Law

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
– Peter Shaffer