Hours

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A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.
Dave Barry

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Hiking is the best workout! You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.
Jamie Luner

How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
Isaac Watts
Source: Divine Songs

Many men are like clocks that show one hour and strike another.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise and the weather should be little regarded. If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.
Thomas Jefferson

Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they fly!
Charlotte Brontë
Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is about half an hour more.
Evan Esar

The darkest hour is just before dawn.

The morning hour has gold in its mouth.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Jane Austen
Source: Sense and Sensibility




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