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. . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: 1920's, 1960's,1990's AGE APRIL AUTUMN BIRTHDAYS BOOMERS BREVITY CHRISTMAS DAY DELAY FALL FIFTIES (THE) FUTURE GOOD OLD DAYS HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAPPY NEW YEAR HIPPIES HISTORY HOLIDAYS IDLENESS LIFE MARCH MEMORIAL DAY MONTHS MORNING NEW YEAR NOVEMBER OCTOBER PAST (THE) PRESENT (THE) PROCRASTINATION PUNCTUALITY SEASONS SEPTEMBER SIXTIES (THE) SPRING SUMMER THANKSGIVING TIMING (GOOD), TODAY TOMORROW TRANSIENCE TWENTIETH CENTURY, TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY VALENTINES DAY WASTING TIME WINTER YESTERDAY Ask counsel of both times, of the ancient time what is best; and of the latter time what is fittest. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. _Essays_ [1625] "Of Great Place" It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. --attributed to Tallulah Bankhead (19031968) American actress. You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. --John Barrymore (John Sidney Blythe) (18821942) Shakespearean actor. Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long it is exceedingly short. --Henry Ward Beecher (18131887) American Congregational minister; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher. _Star Papers, or, Experiences of Art and Nature_, ch. II "Death in the Country" [1855] Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. --Stephen Vincent Benιt (18981943) American poet and novelist. I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passersby to drop their unused minutes into it. --Bernard Berenson (18651959) American art critic and writer. Quoted on "A Renaissance Life" PBS [12 Apr. 1971] Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. --Louis Hector Berlioz (18031869) French composer. Paraphrase of letter to Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein [12 August 1856]. At the eleventh hour. --Bible "Matthew" 20:9 You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] {retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_} Alas! There is no casting anchor in the stream of time! --Marguerite Blessington _Country Quarters_ [1850] Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. --Nicolas Boileau-Desprιaux (16361711) French critic and poet. _L'art poιtique_ [1674], canto III Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. --Dion Boucicault (18201890) Irish actor and playwright. _London Assurance_ [1841] - I didn't know it, but I was literally writing a dime novel. In the spring of 1950 it cost me nine dollars and eighty cents in dimes to write and finish the first draft of _The Fire Man_ which later became _Fahrenheit 451_. In all the years from 1941 to that time, I had done most of my typing in the family garages, either in Venice, California (where we lived because we were poor, not because it was the "in" place to be) or behind the tract house where my wife, Marguerite, and I raised our family. I was driven out of my garage by my loving children, who insisted on coming around to the rear window and singing and tapping on the panes. Father had to choose between finishing a story or playing with the girls. I chose to play, of course, which endangered the family income. An office had to be found. We couldn't afford one. Finally, I located just the place, the typing room in the basement of the library at the University of California at Los Angeles. There, in neat rows, were a score or more of old Remington or Underwood typewriters which rented out at a dime a half hour. You thrust your dime in, the clock ticked madly, and you typed wildly, to finish before the half hour ran out. Thus I was twice driven; by the children to leave home, and by a typewriter timing device to be a maniac at the keys. Time was indeed money. I finished the first draft in roughly nine days. At 25,000 words, it was half the novel it eventually would become. --Ray Bradbury (1920 ) American science fiction author. _Fahrenheit 451_ [1953], "Afterward" [1982] - Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. --attributed to Art Buchwald (19252007) American journalist and humorist who won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary. - Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it, until it has passed over us and taken with it a part of ourselves. --John Burroughs (18371921) American naturalist and writer. "The Spell of the Past" in _Literary Values and Other Papers_ [1902] I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. --John Burroughs (18371921) American naturalist and writer. _The Summit of the Years_ [1913] "Preface" - At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. --Barbara Bush (1925 ) Wife of American the 41st U.S.president, George H.W. Bush and mother of the 43rd president, Geowge W. Bush. You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. --Charles Buxton (18231871) English author. - Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him In soul and aspect as in age; years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, canto III, st. 8 [1812-1818] It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores; for it is too bad that a poor wretch can punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. - And what if you were told: One more hour? --Elias Canetti (19051994) Bulgarian-born writer and novelist. _The Secret Heart of the Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments: 19731985_ Time wounds all heals. --Frank Case (fl. 1938) American hotel manager. _Tales of a Wayward Inn_, ch. 2 [1938] It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. --attributed to Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (17411794) French playwright and conversationalist. Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. Letter to his son [6 November 1747]. Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock. --children's counting rhyme from 1744 An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold. --Chinese Proverb [O tempora! O mores!] Oh, the times! Oh, the customs! --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. _In Catilinam_, Speech I, ch. I No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty - let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learnt. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, *we* go. --Henry Austin Dobson (18401921) English poet and essayist. "The Paradox of Time" [1875] st. 1 [Dobsen admitted he was inspired by a nearly identical couplet attributed to 16th French poet Pierre de Ronsard, according to Paul J. Nahin, _Time Machines_.] When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray. --Michael Drayton (15631631) English poet. "Henry Howard, Earle of Surrey, To the Lady Geraldine" in _Heroical Epistles_ [1619] All my possessions for a moment of time. --Elizabeth I (15331603) Queen of England and Ireland [15581603]. Last words, attributed in "Littell's Living Age" [8 November 1856]. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _The American Scholar_ [1837] By gaming we lose both our time and treasure two things most precious to the life of man. --Owen Feltham (c. 1610c. 1678) English religious writer. Quoted in James Cumming _Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political of Owen Fellham_ [1820]. - Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander Time, for that is the Stuff Life is made of. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [June 1746] If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. Attributed in John Taylor _The Pocket Lacon_ [1845]. Remember that time is money. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Advice to a Young Tradesman_ [1748] After three days, men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [June 1733] The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Advice to a Young Tradesman_ [1748] Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute throw not away an hour. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard Improved_ [1751] - Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. --French proverb How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? --Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (19041991) American writer and illustrator of children's books. Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. In James Wood (ed.) _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources_, p. 324 [1899]. A going clock may be always wrong, but a stopped clock is right twice a day. --Henry Harland (18611905) American novelist and editor. _My Friend Prospero_, Part Sixth [1904]; first published in "McClure's Magazine" in 1903. Sunrise, sunset, Swiftly fly the years; One season following another, Laden with happiness and tears. --Sheldon Harnick (1924 ) American lyricist. "Sunrise, Sunset" [1964 song] - Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time and squawk for more! So learn to say No and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you. (This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.) --Robert Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _The Notebooks of Lazarus Long_ [1978] - A historian named Herodotus, tells of a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: in one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to sing hymns. The other prisoners watched the thief singing to the horse and laughed. "You will not succeed," they told him. "No one can." To which the thief replied, "I have a year, and who knows what might happen in that time. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And perhaps the horse will learn to sing. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. --Robert Herrick (15911674) English poet and clergyman. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 [1648] The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. _Epistles_, Book II, Epistle ii, Line 55 Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. Letter to Martha Jefferson [5 May 1787]. - He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavor to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ #108 Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Letter to Baretti [10 June 1761]. - "What do you live on?" [the ant asked.] "On air, light and sun," said the may-fly. "That's frivolity," said the ant. "You could live on that one day, no longer." "I do only live one day," said the may-fly, "a morning, a noon, and a night. It's endless, inconceivable, isn't it?" "A decent person lives for years," said the ant. "Spring, summer, autumn and winter." "I don't know what that is," said the may-fly; "perhaps you only use different expressions. All life is only a morning, noon and night. I can't imagine anything different." --Manfred Kyber (18801933) Latvian-born German writer and poet. _Among Animals_ [1967] "The One-Day Fly" - Time, which strengthens Friendships, weakens Love. --Jean de La Bruyθre (16451696) French essayist and moralist. _Les Caractθres_, ch. IV [1688] Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 31 [1882]. No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. _Essays of Elia_ [1823], "New Year's Eve" Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. --Dorothea Lange (18951965) American documentary photographer and photojournalist. Quoted in Angela Faris Belt _The Elements of Photography_, p. 212 [2008]. - I went to bed last night it was Wedn Sept. 2, and the first thing I cast my eye upon this morning at the top of yr paper was Thursday Sept. 14 ... have I slept away 11 days in 7 hours, or how is it? For my part I don't find I am more refreshed than after a common night's sleep. --Letter in the Gentleman's Magazine [September 1752] in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.)_History in Quotations_ [2004]. Cohan & Major explain: The Julian calendar (ascribed to Julius Caesar in 46 BC and in general use in western Europe) was modified by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 in keeping with greater astronomical accuracy. Also known as the New Style, the revised calendar suppressed ten days. Gradually adopted by the rest of western Europe, it was not adopted by England and Scotland until 1752. & see: Give us back our eleven days! --Election campaign slogan [1754] - Better late than never. --Livy [Titus Livius] (59 BC17 AD) with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians. _The History of Rome_ [c. 20 B.C.] - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Hyperion_ [1839] It is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life, to light the fires of passion with, from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Hyperion_ [1839] Somewhat back from the village street Stands the old fashioned country-seat. Across its antique portico Tall poplars their shadows throw; And from its ancient station in the hall An ancient timepiece says to all, - Forever-- never! Never-- forever! --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "The Old Clock on the Stairs" [1845] We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what had been, and might have been, And who was changed, and who was dead; And all that fills the hearts of friends, When first they feel, with secret pain, Their lives thenceforth have separate ends, And never can be one again. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "The Fire of Drift-Wood", l. 13 in _The Seaside and the Fireside_ [1850] - No time like the present. --Mrs Manley (16631724) English novelist and dramatist. _The Lost Lover_, IV, i [1696] Lost, yesterday, between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. --Horace Mann (17961859) American educator. In "Universalist Union" [16 March 1844] (wikiquote) Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. --Thomas Mann (18751955) German novelist. _The Beloved Returns_ [1939] - 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 Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_ How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_, trans. Maxwell Staniforth [1964] - [Water clocks were used to measure periods of time - one water clock lasted approximately 20 minutes:] Seven water-clocks' allowance you asked for in loud tones, Caecilianus, and the judge unwillingly granted them. But you speak much and long, and with back-tilted head, swill tepid water out of glass flasks. That you may once for all sate your oratory and your thirst, we beg you, Caecilianus, now to drink out of the water-clock! --Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis] (38/41103) Roman poet. Quoted in Daniel J. Boorstin _The Discoverers_ [1983]. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. --Andrew Marvell (16211678) English poet. "To His Coy Mistress" - Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious of human goods and to squander it is the most delicate form of dissipation in which man can indulge. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. In _Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories_ [1936] "The Bum". In youth, the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass, and even in middle age, with the ordinary expectation of life in these days, it is easy to find excuses for delaying what one would like to do but does not want to; but at last a time comes when death must be considered. Here and there one's contemporaries drop off. We know that all men are mortal but it remains for us little more than a logical premise till we are forced to recognize that in the ordinary course of things our end can no longer be remote. An occasional glance at the obituary column of _The Times_ has suggested to me that the sixties are very unhealthy; I have long thought that it would exasperate me to die before I had written this book, and so it seemed to me that I had better set about it at once. When I have finished it I can face the future with serenity, for I shall have rounded off my life's work. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _The Summing Up_, ch. III [1938] - Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _A Book of Prefaces_ [1917] An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. --Arthur Miller (19152005) American dramatist. "The Year It Came Apart" in _New York_ (mag.) [30 Dec. 1974 - 6 Jan. 1975]. Time, the subtle thief of youth. --John Milton (16081674) English poet. _On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three_ [1631] When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew. --Thomas Moore (17791852) Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician. Song, from _Juvenile Poems_. A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search for truth or perfection, is a poverty stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. --Lewis Mumford (18951990) American architectural critic, urban planner, and historian. _The Condition of Man_ [1944] - There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. --Napoleon I (17691821) Emperor of France [18041815]. _Maxims_ [18041815] [To his army before the Battle of the Pyramids, July 2, 1797:] Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. --Napoleon I (17691821) Emperor of France [18041815]. Quoted in Kate Louise Roberts _Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 525 [1922]. - How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick? --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. _You Can't Get There From Here_ [1957], "Preface to the Past" It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. Opening lines of _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ [1948]. Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.18 A.D.) Roman poet. "Metamorphoses" Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same person. --Blaise Pascal (16231662) French mathematician, physicist, and moralist. _Pensιes_ ("Thoughts") [1670] Time is what we want most, but alas, we use worst. --William Penn (16441718) Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe {E.B.}. Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. _To Mrs. M.B._ l. 9 Even such is Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Which in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our day; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. --Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 15521618) English explorer and courtier. (Lines said to have been written on the eve of his execution; found in the Gate-house at Westminster.) Half of our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. --Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (18791935) American humorist and actor. Letter to the "New York Times" [29 April 1930]. The first quarter of life has slipped away before we know its use, and the last quarter also slips away after we have ceased to enjoy it. At first we do not know how to live; soon we are no longer able to live; and in the interval which separates these two useless extremities three quarters of the time which remains to us is consumed in sleep, in labor, in suffering, in constraint, in trouble of every description. --Jean Jacques Rousseau (17121778) French philosopher and novelist. _Emile; or, Treatise on Education_, Book Fourth [1762] The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. --attributed to Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. - "Excuse me, Doctor, did you say that the Sun will burn up the Earth in 5 billion years?" "Yes, more or less." "Thank God. For a moment I thought you had said 5 *million*." --Carl Sagan (19341996) American astronomer and author. An "old joke" in _Billions & Billions_, p. 6 [1997]. - Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide. --George Savile [Lord Halifax] (16331695) English politicial and essayist. _Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections_ [1750] - The years pass more quickly as we become older. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. "Counsels and Maxims" (2.9), _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders [1851]. Every day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. _Parerga and Paralipomena_ (Minor Works and Remnants) [1851] - - Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _De Vita Beata_ (On the Happy Life) Time often heals what reason cannot. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. "Agamemnon" - Ah! the clock is always slow; It is later than you think; Sadly later than you think; Far, far later than you think. --Robert William Service (18741958) British poet. "It Is Later Than You Think" [1921] - [King Richard speaking:] I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Richard II_, 5.5.49, [1595] To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this pretty 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 (15641616) English dramatist. _Macbeth_, V, v [1606] - Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. --Samuel Smiles (18121904) Scottish author. _Self-Help_ [1859] Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. --Herbert Spencer (18201903) English philosopher. "Definitions" I never drink. I cannot do it on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day, but me three; the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting. --Laurence Sterne (17131768) Irish-born English novelist. Quoted in _Working Farmer_, vol. 9 [1858] No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1711] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. --Herbert Bayard Swope (18821958) American editor and journalist; the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting [1917]. Speech, St. Louis, Missouri [20 December 1950]. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. --Rabindranath Tagore (18611941) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, and painter who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. _Fireflies_ [1931 ed.] - So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) English poet. "In Memoriam A. H. H." canto 106 [1850] & note: So little done, so much to do. --Cecil Rhodes (18531902) South African statesman. (Said on the day of his death.) - Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. --Theophrastus (c.370c.287 BC) Greek philosopher of the Peripatetic school. In Diogenes Laertius _Lives of Eminent Philosophers_, bk. V, sec. 40. It takes a licking and keeps on ticking. --Timex watches advertising slogan [To a man who was staggering in the street under the weight of a grandfather clock:] My poor fellow, why not carry a watch? --Herbert Beerbohm Tree (18521917) English actor-manager. Quoted in Hesketh Pearson _Beerbohm Tree_ [1956]. 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 not. --Henry Van Dyke (18521933) American clergyman, educator, and author. Inscribed on the base of a sun-dial presented to Mrs. Katrina Trask. In _The Dial_ [19 December 1901]. - Age steals away all things, even the mind. --Virgil (7019 B.C.) Roman poet. _Eclogues_ [4337 BC], IX, 51 (Fugit inreparabile tempus.) Time is flying never to return. --Virgil (7019 B.C.) Roman poet. _Georgics_, no. 3, l. 284 - TIME: Nothing is longer, since it is the measure of eternity. Nothing is shorter, since it is insufficient for the accomplishment of our projects. Nothing is more slow to him that expects; Nothing more rapid to him that enjoys. In greatness it extends to infinity, In smallness it is infinitely divisible. All men neglect it; All regret the loss of it; Nothing can be done without it. It consigns to oblivion whatever is unworthy of being transmitted to posterity, And it immortalizes such actions as are truly great. Time is a man's most precious asset. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. --E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. --Virginia Woolf (18821941) English novelist. _A Room of One's Own_ [1929] Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower. --William Wordsworth (17701850) English poet. "Ode: Imitations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", l. 177 [1807] Procrastination is the thief of time. --Edward Young (16831765) English poet. _Night Thoughts_, "Night I", l. 393 [17421745] - I went to bed last night it was Wedn Sept. 2, and the first thing I cast my eye upon this morning at the top of yr paper was Thursday Sept. 14 ... have I slept away 11 days in 7 hours, or how is it? For my part I don't find I am more refreshed than after a common night's sleep. --Letter in _Gentleman's Magazine_ [September 1752] {regarding the modification of the Julian calendar by England and Scotland in 1752}. & see Give us back our eleven days! --election campaign slogan [1754] - The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." Yet, time is the one thing we are not short-changed on. Our supply of time is the same as the people who we think of as the Great Achievers (Ford, Lincoln, Edison, etc.). When we say we haven't got time, what we really mean is that we lack drive, ambition, initiative and stick-to-it-iveness. Time does not fail us; it is we who fail time. --anon. To everything there is a season, a time for every pupose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to gain, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to throw away; A time to tear, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace. --Ecclesiastes 3:1-9 Strangely enough, the aged have a lot in common with youth; they are largely unemployed, introspective and often depressed; their bodies and psyches are in the process of change, and they are heavy users of drugs. If they want to marry, their families tend to disapprove. Both groups are obsessed with time. Youth, however, figures its passage from birth; the aged calculate backward from their death day. --_Time_, [3 Aug. 1970] This is the nineteen -- what, eighties? --dialogue _Cheers_ TV show, "Coach" {Nicholas Colasanto 19231985} - Mary had a little watch She swallowed it one day The doctor gave her castor oil To pass the time away. Mary took the castor oil, But the time, it would not pass, So if you want to know the time, You can look up Mary's aunt, who has a watch too. --anon. - ----- anachronistic (adj.) [uh-nak-ruh-'nis-tik] In the wrong time, chronologically inaccurate, containing an anachronism. circadian (adj.) [sκr-'keyd-(i-)yκn] Pertaining to a 24-hour day, especially, occurring every 24 hours. epoch [EP-uhk], noun: 1. The beginning of a distinctive period in the history of anything. 2. A particular period of time marked by distinctive features or events. 3. A memorable date. equinox (noun) ['e-kwκ-nahks] (1) One of the two days in the year when day and night are of equal length12 hours each; (2) the two points at which the sun's path, as seen from earth, crosses the equator. ephemeral [ih-FEM-er-ul], adjective: 1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; as, an ephemeral flower. 2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. extempore [ik-STEM-puh-ree], adverb: Without premeditation or preparation; on the spur of the moment. Ides (noun): In the ancient Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. interminable [in-TUR-muh-nuh-buhl], adjective: so long as to seem endless; never stopping interstice [in-TUR-stuhs], noun; plural interstices [in-TUR-stuh-seez; -suhz]: 1. A space between things or parts, especially a space between things closely set; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; an interval. 2. An interval of time. Ex.: He signed up for the summer session but in the interstice between terms he drove north to see his daughter, Ellen. --William F. Buckley Jr., "Witness and Friend", _National Review_ [6 August 2001] sempiternal [sem-pih-TUR-nuhl], adjective: Of never ending duration; having beginning but no end; everlasting; endless. trice [TRYS], noun: A very short time; an instant; a moment. end page | TABLOIDS - TALENT | TALK - TAYLOR (ELIZABETH) | TAXATION | TEACHERS / TEACHING | TEAMWORK - TELEVANGELISTS | TELEVISION - TELEVISION SHOWS | TEMPER - THANKSGIVING | TERRORISM | THATCHER - THINKING | THOUGHT POLICE - THRIFT | TIME | TIME TRAVEL - TODAY | TOLERANCE - TOYS | TRADITION - TRANSIENCE | TRAVEL | TREACHERY - TRIVIA | TROUBLE - TRUST | TRUTH | TRYING - TYRANNY | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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