The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate1 to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
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)
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate2 ones.
Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
Franklin P. Jones
When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
Hannibal Buress
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated3 to by a watch.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.
Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop4
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 maturity5 for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch6.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities7 are bigger than other infinities.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable8 of all our possessions.
John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
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)
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch
What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.
Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
So little time and so little to do.
Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
These times of ours are series and full of calamity9, but all times are essentially10 alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
