Time waits for no one, and time is on my side. So let time stand still for a moment with these proverbs and quotes about time.
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A broken clock is right twice a day.
Something which is unexpected may still happen.A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
(unknown author)Source: Movie: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Gandalf
All things grow with time, except grief.
As time goes by, grief will diminish.All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Gandalf
An internet eternity.
(unknown author)More than about five seconds.
Any time means no time.
If you don't fix the date or time for something, it may never happen.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 BarryBetter three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William ShakespeareBetter three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
William ShakespeareBetween too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
Franz WerfelClocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).
Kamand KojouriDeath must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar WildeDon't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
Rabindranath TagoreDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin FranklinEnergy is time, and time is everything.
Khalid MasoodEternity is an awful long time, especially towards the end.
Stephen HawkingEven if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.
Stephen HawkingFantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.
Walt DisneyFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H.L. MenckenI didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
Betty WhiteI don't need time, I need a deadline.
Duke EllingtonI have wondered about time all my life.
Stephen HawkingI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Rabindranath TagoreI would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Arwen
Quote from the movie
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
Stephen HawkingIf it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.
CherIf you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
If you had to choose a moment in history to be born, and you did not know ahead of time who you would be -- you didn't know whether you were going to be born into a wealthy family or a poor family, what country you'd be born, whether you were going to be a man or a woman -- if you had to choose blindly what moment you'd want to be born you'd choose now.
Barack ObamaImaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.
Stephen HawkingIn the long run, we are all dead!
John Maynard KeynesIsn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
Lucy Maud MontgomeryIt is not the past that matters, but the future.
Agatha ChristieSource: Death on the Nile
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
Charles DickensNever is an awfully long time.
J.M. BarrieSource: Peter Pan
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste RodinOur birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul RichterProcrastination is the thief of time.
Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they fly!
Charlotte BrontëLife's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they fly!
Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason CooleySo long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
Stephen HawkingSome people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
Jules RenardThe bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Michael AltshulerThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath TagoreThe clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
Ben FoldsThe only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert EinsteinThe time I kill is killing me.
Mason CooleyThe time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
Jane Austen