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Quotes about time




Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci






I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare






We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle






Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer






One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin






Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Albert Einstein






Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo






Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius






There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein






Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus






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






Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de La Bruyere






Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud






To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus






Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain






Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin






We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
Karl Marx






If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare






Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin






All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
Novalis / 






Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus / 






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