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. Tolkien
Source: 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 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
Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.Franz Werfel
Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).Kamand Kojouri
Death 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 Wilde
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.Rabindranath Tagore
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.Benjamin Franklin
Energy is time, and time is everything.Khalid Masood
Eternity is an awful long time, especially towards the end.Stephen Hawking
Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.Stephen Hawking
Fantasy, 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 Disney
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.H.L. Mencken
I 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 White
I have wondered about time all my life.Stephen Hawking
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.Rabindranath Tagore
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: 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 Hawking
If 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 Obama
Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.Stephen Hawking
In the long run, we are all dead!John Maynard Keynes
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is not the past that matters, but the future.Agatha Christie
Source: Death on the Nile
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.Charles Dickens
Never is an awfully long time.J.M. Barrie
Source: Peter Pan
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.Auguste Rodin
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.Jean Paul Richter
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Rapidly, merrily,Charlotte Brontë
Life'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 Cooley
So 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 Hawking
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.Jules Renard
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.Michael Altshuler
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.Rabindranath Tagore
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.Ben Folds
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.Albert Einstein
The time I kill is killing me.Mason Cooley
The 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
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
There's no time like the present.If you need to do something, don't delay but do it immediately.
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