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Sagt av |
| Alla gamla goda tider var en gången dålig ny tid. | Hellmut Walters |
| Allt används längre än man tror, även om man tar hänsyn till att allt används längre än man tror. | Linus Walleij |
| Antagligen den svåraste tiden i någons liv är när man måste lämna någon man älskar för att de är djävulen. | Emo Philips (1956-) |
| Att slå ihjäl tiden, detta monster, är vår allra vanligaste och mest tillåtna sysselsättning. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| De flesta skulle ha mycket att glädja sig åt om de bara hade tid. | K. K. Steincke |
| Den som bara fördriver tiden fördriver så småningom nog också något annat. | Alexander von Lernet-Holenia |
| Den tid du vill slösa bort, är inte bortslösad tid. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Den tid som går bra, kommer inte tillbaka. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Den tid vi människor är tillsammans är så svindlande kort | Hans Borli (1918-1989) |
| Den äldre säger att tiden blir värre. Tiden är som den alltid har varit, det är den äldre som blir värre | Tysk Ordtak |
| Det finns många samtida som bara har datum gemensamt med tiden. | Karl Steinbuch |
| Det är bättre att komma fem minuter för sent än fyrtio år för tidigt. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Det är när vi vill vinna tid som vi förlorar den som mest | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| Det är typiskt att det finns tidtagare men ingen tidgivare. | Hellmut Walters |
| Efter nymånen kommer nedan. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| En flod, en forsande ström är tiden. Knappt har något dykt upp förrän det sköljs bort och annat blivit synligt som i sin tur sköljs bort. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Framtidens enda charm är att den är framtid. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Följ med din tid! Men bara när den är värd det. | Oliver Hassencamp (1921-1988) |
| Gå med tiden, men kom tillbaka från tid till annan. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Ibland är hon en flygande fågel och har en vinge stark. | Magnus Brostrup Landstad (1802-1880) |
| Industriålderns viktigaste maskin är inte ångmaskinen utan klockan. | Jacques Attali |
| Ingen tid räcker som inte är indelad. Inget förråd räcker som inte är beräknat. | Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846) |
| Inget är som väntans tider. | Sarah Doudney |
| Ju förr, desto bättre | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Ju längre jag följer med tiden, desto hellre vill jag bli stående då och då. | Oliver Hassencamp (1921-1988) |
| Man förlorar mer tid när man försöker vinna tid. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| Med tiden kanske man vänjer sig vid tiden. | Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) |
| När någon drar sig tillbaka och tiden inte längre har någon betydelse för honom, brukar hans arbetskamrater ge honom en klocka. | R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975) |
| Om du inte kan styra din tid kan du inte styra något alls. | Claus Møller |
| Om du vill ha ont om tid ska du ingenting göra. | Anton Tjechov (1860-1904) |
| Om hundra år är allting glömt | Norsk Ordtak |
| Om ni kände tiden lika bra som jag själv gör, sade hattmakaren, skulle ni inte tala om att slösa med den som ett föremål. Tiden är en person. | Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
| Om tid är pengar så lever alla över sina tillgångar. | Ludwig Fulda |
| Saker som är värda att göra är ibland värda att göra för ofta. | David Letterman (1947-) |
| Som löv är du inte heller. Snabbt skälvande, och snabbt borta. Kom - | Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970) |
| Springer vi till eller springer vi ifrån? | Anne Grete Preus (1957-) |
| Så mycket tid, så lite att göra. | Oscar Levant (1906-1972) |
| Tag vara på minuterna. Timmarna tar vara på sig själva. | Lord Philip Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| Tid har bara de som inte har åstadkommit något, och därmed har de nått längre än alla andra. | Giovanni Guareschi (1908-1968) |
| Tid är att förslösa pengar. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Tid är något man har bara om man tar den. | Bertha Eckstein |
| Tid är pengar, sade hantverkaren - och tog sig tid. | Winfried Hönes |
| Tid är sanningens fader, vårt sinne är dess moder. | Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) |
| Tiden går inte - det är vi som rusar fram genom den stillastående evigheten. | Demetrius |
| Tiden gör allting sämre. | Demetrius |
| Tiden kan inte bindas som en annan häst. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Tiden läker alla sår. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Tiden räcker till för den som använder den. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Tiden står stilla. Det är vi som rör oss åt fel håll. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Tiden uppför sig som en människa. När man inte kontrollerar den med en blick på klockan går den långsammare. | Gabriel Laub |
| Tiden är det längsta avståndet mellan två punkter. | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| Tiden är en god läkare men en dålig kosmetolog. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Tiden är en opålitlig bundsförvant. Man vet aldrig riktigt vem den egentligen arbetar för. | Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) |
| Tiden är en stor lärare, men tyvärr dödar den alla sina elever. | Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) |
| Tiden är en stor läromästare. Det är bara synd att den tar livet av sina elever. | Curi Goetz |
| Tiden är havande med något nytt utan att kunna föda fram det. | Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) |
| Tiden är något som har blivit bättre enbart bland idrottsmän. | Werner Schneyder |
| Tiden är rörelse i rummet. | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| Tiden är vad vi gör den till. | Arne Garborg (1851-1924) |
| Tidens tand tär | Norsk Ordtak |
| Ting tar tid | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Tänk på femte budet. Du skall icke dräpa tiden. | Erich Kästner |
| Varför mäta tidens flykt med blytyngder? Varför inte mäta den med rosor, upplevellser, förhoppningar· och poesi. | Karl Gerhard (1891-1964) |
| Vi måste utnyttja tiden som ett verktyg, inte som en soffa. | John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Än kan det vara för sent! | Dragbasun |
| Är tid det enda du väntar på? | Loesje (1983-) |
| Är tidens tand möjligen vad som finns kvar av Guds garnityr? | Nicolaus Cybinski |
| Även pendeln följer med tiden. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. | Ada Louise Huxtable |
| Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. | Alan Lakein |
| We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. | Alice Bloch |
| Time's winged chariot hurrying near. | Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) |
| There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. | Anthony Rapp (1971-) |
| Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. | Decimus Maximus Ausonius (310-395) |
| Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. | Ben Hecht (1893-1964) |
| To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck that which is planted. | Bible |
| Time is just a magazine. | Blanton Meyercord |
| Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. | Catherine Zandonella (1920-) |
| We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. | Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) |
| There's time enough, but none to spare. | Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) |
| I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. | Charlie Brown |
| The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science. | Claude C. Hopkins |
| Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose | David Brainerd |
| If only there were a longer time between epiphany and epitaph | David Glaser |
| Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. | Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) |
| Children spell love... T-I-M-E. | Dr. Anthony P. Witham |
| Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell. | Dr. Who |
| Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. | Edward H. Dreschnack |
| Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow | Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) |
| It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
| Don't overwrite description in a story - you haven't got time | Elizabeth Spencer |
| Judges don't age; time decorates them. | Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) |
| Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been. | Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994) |
| Time is my greatest enemy. | Evita Peron (1919-1952) |
| Time is the fire in which we burn | Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) |
| Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes | George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) |
| Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. | George Gissing (1857-) |
| Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home. | Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) |
| Time - our youth - it never really goes, does it? It is all in our minds | Helen Hoover Santmyer |
| The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. | Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) |
| Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever... | Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) |
| Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. | Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) |
| Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. | Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) |
| I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking. | James Gould Cozzens (1903-) |
| Sadness flies away on the wings of time. | Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) |
| Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. | Jesse Jackson (1941-) |
| It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad | Jimmy Buffett (1946-) |
| I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. "Legend" means, basically, "bullshit." | Joel Rosenberg |
| Time is what prevents everything from happening at once | John Archibald Wheeler (1911-) |
| The law is like apparel, which alters with the time | John Dodderidge |
| Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. | John Randolph (1915-2004) |
| Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Time is the mother and mugger of us all | Karen Elizabeth Gordon |
| If you realize too acutely how heavenly valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything | Katharine Butler Hathaway |
| Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely | Kay Lyons |
| To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. | Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) |
| The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity. | Luciano de Crescenzo (1928-) |
| Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time | Margaret Bonnano |
| Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life. | Michael Leboeuf |
| Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter | Nadine Gordimer (1923-) |
| "Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, "in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late | Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) |
| There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse. | Oren Lyons, Jr. |
| Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause | Phillip Gribble |
| A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity. | Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) |
| When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed. | Roy Rogers (1911-1998) |
| There is a story that when incoming jets throttle back for the approach to Belfast's Aldergrove Airport, the pilots tell their passengers to put their watches back to local time - 1690 | Russell Miller |
| Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. | Sydney Smith (1771-1845) |
| Time is not a line, but a series of now-points | Taisen Deshimaru (1914-) |
| There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend | Theophrastus |
| Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours | Thomas Mann (1875-1955) |
| Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly. | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| Time as he grows old teaches all things. | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. | Alan Watts (1915-1973) |
| Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall. | Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) |
| The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. | Chinese Proverbs |
| Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. | Colley Cibber (1671-1757) |
| Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer. | Conan O'Brien |
| Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. | Earl Nightingale |
| Light tomorrow with today! | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |
| Time is a dressmaker, specializing in alterations | Faith Baldwin (1893-1978) |
| At 5:30 the morning shift of commissary workers arrive to stock the coffee urns, bring in fresh food and prepare for the daylong job of feeding the humans. | Francis X. Clines |
| You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. | Frank Crane (1861-1928) |
| Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. | Helen Rowland (1876-1950) |
| About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| All human power is a compound of time and patience. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| When God made time, he made plenty of it | Irish Sayings |
| Today is tomorrow's yesterday...make the best of it... for it will never come again. | Janice Markowitz |
| I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time. | Jewel Kilcher (1974-) |
| Time is not a road - it is a room | John Fowles (1926-) |
| Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish | John Lyly (1554-1606) |
| Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. | Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) |
| I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels! | Kenneth Tynan (1927-1980) |
| Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| The best way to fill time is to waste it | Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) |
| You lose a lot of time, hating people. | Marian Anderson (1902-1993) |
| Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on - not for looking at | Noël Coward (1899-1973) |
| If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. | Norman R. Augustine |
| Time, time, time, See what's become of me, While I look around all my possibilities | Paul Simon (1941-) |
| Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment | Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) |
| Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. | Pericles |
| Time is the wisest counsellor of all. | Pericles |
| The present will not long endure | Pindar |
| Time is the wisest of all counselors | Plutarktos (46-119) |
| Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of | Richard Baxter |
| There is something about saying "Ok" and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into feeling that he has just pulled off a big deal, even if he has only called the telephone company to find out the correct time | Robert Benchley (1889-1945) |
| Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore. | Sarah McLachlan (1968-) |
| Time heals what reason cannot | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. | Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874-1956) |
| Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. | Thomas Mann (1875-1955) |
| Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state | Thomas Mann (1875-1955) |
| In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for. | Kay Lyons |
| Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely | Kay Lyons |
| Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing. | Stacey Charter |
| The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future | Chinese Proverbs |
| If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. | Chinese Proverbs |
| To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
| Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end but somewhere in the middle we've become the best of friends. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. | James Taylor (1948-) |
| Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| If only there were a longer time between epiphany and epitaph | David Glaser |
| The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| Time brings all things to pass. | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. | Alice Bloch |
| Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Time is not a thing that's ours to lose. | Ani diFranco (1970-) |
| In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. | Anthony Rapp (1971-) |
| A sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities - is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) |
| We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful. | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) |
| Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment. | Arthur Brisbane (1864-1880) |
| If you have time don't wait for time | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Lost time is never found again. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| You may delay, but time will not. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Time is money. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven | Bible |
| It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it. | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| Your time is a valuable resource. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. | Chinese Proverbs |
| Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it: Spend time with your families. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| 90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. | Denis Waitley (-1933) |
| It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend | Diogenes |
| Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you move to them from the President, or the President will be reacting, not leading. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| Time is bunk. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| How did it get so late so soon? | Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) |
| Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, TIme held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. | Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) |
| The few men who have managed to reach heaven must be terribly spoiled by this time | Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) |
| Time is a Test of Trouble But not a Remedy If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so... | Frances Burnett |
| To choose time is to save time. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. | Frank Crane (1861-1928) |
| There are moments, you reach moments, when all of a sudden time stops and becomes eternal. | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. | General George S. Patton (1885-1945) |
| Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| Time is the rider that breaks youth. | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home. | Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) |
| Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| Time is free, but it's priceless. You can'town it, but you can use it. You can't keepit, but you can spend it. Once you've lost ityou can never get it back. | Harvey MacKay |
| In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. | Helen Rowland (1876-1950) |
| Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Time is a good story-teller | Irish Sayings |
| Years and sins are always more than owned | Italian Proverb |
| Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. | Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) |
| There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it. | J. Russell Lynes (1910-1991) |
| “They asked me once my thoughts about infinity, and I told ‘em with all I had to think about, infinity was not on my list of things to think about. It could be time on an ego-trip, for all I know. After all, when you’re pressed for time, infinity may as well not be there.” | Jane Wagner (1935-) |
| Been given 24 hours To tie up loose ends To make amendsHis eyes said it all I started to fall And the silence deafenedHead spinning round No time to sit down Just wanted to Run and run and runBe careful they say Don't wish life away, Now I've one dayAnd I can't believeHow I've been wasting my timeIn 24 hours they'll be Laying flowers On my life, it's over tonightI'm not messing no I Need your blessingAnd your promise to live freePlease do it for meIs there a heaven a hell And will I come back Who can tellNow I can see What matters to me It's as clear as crystalThe places I've beenThe people I've seenPlans that I made Start to fadeThe sun's setting gold Thought I would grow old, It wasn't to beAnd I can't believeHow I've been wasting my timeIn 18 hours they'll beLaying flowers On my life, it's over tonightI'm not messing no INeed your blessingAnd your promise to live freePlease do it for meIn 13 hours they'll beLaying flowers On my life, it's over tonightI'm not messing no INeed your blessingAnd your promise to live freePlease do it for meI'm not alone, I sense it, I sense itAll that I said, I meant it, I meant itAnd I can't believeHow much I've wasted my timeIn just 8 hours they'll beLaying flowers On my life, it's over tonightI'm not messing no INeed your blessingAnd your promise to live freePlease do it for meIn just 1 hour they'll beLaying flowers On my life, it's over tonightI'm not messing no INeed your blessingAnd your promise to live freePlease do it for me. | Jem |
| Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| We must use time as a tool not as a couch | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| Time, the subtle thief of youth | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| Time is the only critic without ambition. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. | Jonathan Carroll (1949-) |
| Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| God has commanded Time to console the unhappy | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| Today is the good old times of tomorrow. | Karl Valentin |
| If you realize too acutely how heavenly valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything | Katharine Butler Hathaway |
| Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance. | Leo F. Buscaglia |
| My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years, months, days, hours, or minutes remain that Carpe Diem 'is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?' | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| So many men, so little time. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| I've been on a calendar, but never on time. | Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) |
| When it's steamboat time, you steam | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time. | Mercedes Lackey |
| And now I got myself together and finally understand.This time I'll take your heart in the palm of my hands. | Musiq Soulchild (1977-) |
| There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes the sapphire from a child's eyes. Dark time, who has stolen from every thing there ever was all the things that it held precious and divine... And left nothing but ashes and memories and the grave. | Neil Gaiman (1960-) |
| We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment | Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) |
| A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time | Persian Proverb |
| Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| The present will not long endure | Pindar |
| Time carries off all things; wouldst thou exchange - Name, looks, nature, luck? Just give time full range | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. | Proverb |
| Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday | Proverb |
| Time is a great healer | Proverb |
| What blossoms beautifully, withers fast | Proverb |
| Tide and time wait for no man | Proverb |
| He who yields to his times acts wisely | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead. | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
| So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Time discovers truth. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Time is a kindly God | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| When asked, 'What did God do before he created the universe?' St. Augustine didn´t reply, 'he was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions.' Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe. | Stephen Hawking (1942-) |
| A good shepherd knows time like no other, and a good shepherd sleeps well, even while dreaming of wolves. | Steve Cash |
| For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| Time is the longest distance between two places. | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past like a stampede. | Terry Pratchett (1948-) |
| If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Time makes more converts than reason. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| Time is flying, never to return | Virgil (70 f.Kr.-19 f.Kr.) |
| Time speeds away irretrievably | Virgil (70 f.Kr.-19 f.Kr.) |
| Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years | Will Durant (1885-1981) |
| Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| The fashion of the time is changed | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Past and to come seems best; things present worst | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Time is the justice that examines all offenders. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| And summer's lease hath all too short a date. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent | Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-1992) |
| It gets late early out there. | Yogi Berra (1925-) |
| I usually take a two hour nap from one to four | Yogi Berra (1925-) |
| For gamle mennesker flyr dagene avsted, men tiden faller dem lang. | Karl Kristian Steincke (1880-1963) |