Category Archives: Clock Quotes

The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners, hand on the torch of life.
– Lucretius

The time is always right to do what is right.
– Martin Luther King, Jr

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, ever minutes so filled with the life I love, that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
– Aga Khan III

Time doesn’t go. Time stays. We go.
– Linda Ellerbee

Times don’t change. Men do.
– Sam Levenson

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
– Tennessee Williams

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965), The Moon and Sixpence

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and the rain with verbs, and for worms to pass through question marks, and the stars to shine down on budding nouns, and the dew to form on paragraphs.
– Richard Brautigan

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.
– Margaret B. Johnstone

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Time is the image of eternity.
– Laertius Diogenes

Be regular and orderly in your daily affairs that you may be violent and original in your work.
– Gustave Flaubert

Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it.
– Erich Fromm

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you: You do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
– Albert Camus

People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 – 1966), “Unkempt Thoughts”

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish Proverb

One life – a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
– Thomas Carlyle

Killing time is the chief end of our society.
– Ugo Betti

At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be.
– Vinny Nayak

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
– Francis Bacon

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
– Leonard Cohen

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

Space and time are modes by which we think, not conditions under which we live.
Albert Einstein

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin (1840 – 1917)

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it’s just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don’t think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.
Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers (1879 – 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

Time is not like pocket money that you can spend because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you.
from “The Dead Fathers Club” by Matt Haig

We burn daylight.
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, Act 1 scene 4

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Plutarch (46 AD – 120 AD)

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess (1917 – 1993)

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
Paul Klee (1879 – 1940)

So little time and so little to do.
Oscar Levant (1906 – 1972)

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

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

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 – )

There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 – 1990)

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer (800 BC – 700 BC), The Odyssey

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.
Plato (427 BC – 347 BC), The Republic

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
Joan Klempner

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’
John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
Leo J. Burke

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop