Famous Time Quotes

"By the time we've made it, we've had it"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"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, Writer

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"

John Wooden, Coach

"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"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, Novelist

"There's time enough, but none to spare"

Charles W. Chesnutt, Novelist

"Lost time is never found again"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own"

H.G. Wells, Author

"The time I kill is killing me"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"But time growing old teaches all things"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"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, Poet

"Know how to live the time that is given you"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness"

John Wanamaker, Businessman

"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn"

Delmore Schwartz, Poet

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

"Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another"

William Gibson, Writer

"I took some time out for life"

James L. Brooks, Producer

"Time is the wisest counselor of all"

Pericles, Statesman

"Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"My time is now"

John Turner, Statesman

"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it"

Golda Meir, Leader

"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present"

Roger Babson, Educator

"The present is a point just passed"

David Russell, Musician

"It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them"

Dion Boucicault, Dramatist

"So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day"

Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Leader

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist