A Dozen Great Quotes on (ever-elusive) Time

  • The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. – Albert Einstein
  • Time … thou ceaseless lackey to eternity. – William Shakespeare
  • Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst. – Willaim Penn
  • We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. – Jeremy Irons
  • Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. – John Updike
  • Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. – Charles Caleb Colton
  • But what minutes!  Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. – Benjamin Disraeli
  • Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. – Charles Dickens
  • Time is an old firmly rooted tree; we are the breeze rustling its leaves. – Terri Guillemets
  • Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. – Dion Boucicault
  • A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin
  • Time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams

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