Time quotes

Nam Tempus, Spatium, Locum & Motum, ut omnibus notiſſima, non definio.

[I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all.]

Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

Zeit ist das, was man an der Uhr abliest.

[Time is what a clock measures.]

Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

τὸ πολυτελέστατον ἀνάλωμα τὸν χρόνον.

[The most precious thing a man can spend is time.]

Ἀντιφῶν [Antiphon] (480–411 BCE)

ὥσπερ οὖν εἰ μὴ ἦν ἕτερον τὸ νῦν ἀλλὰ ταὐτὸ καὶ ἕν, οὐκ ἂν ἦν χρόνος.

[As, if the now had remained the same, time would not have existed.]

Αριστοτέλης [Aristotle] (384–322 BCE)

quid est ergo tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.

[What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.]

Augustinus Hipponensis [Augustine of Hippo] (354–430)

Ποταμός τίς ἐστι τῶν γινομένων καὶ ῥεῦμα βίαιον ὁ αἰών· ἅμα τε γὰρ ὤφθη ἕκαστον, καὶ παρενήνεκται καὶ ἄλλο παραφέρεται, τὸ δὲ ἐνεχθήσεται.

[Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.]

Marcus Aurelius (121–180)

We shall come to see that time does not exist.

Julian Barbour (1937–0000)

Le temps est ce qui empêche que tout soit donné tout d'un coup.

[Time keeps everything from happening all at once.]

Henri Bergson (1859–1941)

Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un maître inhumain qui tue ses élèves.

[Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.]

Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett (1933–0000)

Time isn't holding us. Time isn't after us. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

David Byrne (1952–0000)

Time touches all things with destroying hand.

Charles Chesnutt (1858–1932)

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Remember that time is money.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.

Merrick Furst (1956–0000)

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Ben Hecht (1894–1964)

Χρόνος ἐστὶν ἐν ᾧ καιρός, καὶ καιρὸς ἐν ᾧ χρόνος οὐ πολύς.

[Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.]

Ιπποκράτης [Hippocrates] (460–370 BCE)

Time is our tyrant.

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out, and will tell.

Franklin P. Jones (1939–2008)

Życie zabiera ludziom zbyt wiele czasu.

[People find life entirely too time consuming.]

Stanisław Lec (1909–1966)

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Groucho Marx (1890–1977)

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.

David B. Norris (1944–0000)

Tempus edax rerum.

[Time is the devourer of all things.]

Publius Ovidius Naso [Ovid] (43–18 BCE)

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

Everywhere is in walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright (1955–0000)

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Time neither subtracts nor divides, but adds at such a pace it seems like multiplication.

Bob Talbert (1936–1999)

As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

Clearly… any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have length, breadth, thickness, and duration…. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of space, and a fourth, time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.

H.G. Wells (1866–1946)

National Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day was tomorrow.

Michael Che (1983–0000)

Time is. Time was. Time is past.

Robert Greene (1558–1592)

一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴。

[An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.]

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The speed of time is one second per second.

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Time heals all wounds — except deadly ones.

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Wasting time is an important part of living.

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Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

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What does "it" mean in the sentence, "What time is it?"

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Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

Tom Stoppard (1937–0000)