Time Quotes

“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”

“Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.”

“The time is out of joint.”

“Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”

“I am declinedInto the vale of years.”

“What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hoursMore tedious than the dial eightscore times!O weary reckoning!”

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent toil all forwards do contend.”

“What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?”

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

“To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes”

“Every fair from fair sometime declines”

“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”

“O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.”

“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”

“The deep of night is crept upon our talk,And Nature must obey necessity.”

“Short summers lightly have a forward spring.”

“Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.”

“Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.”

“Take all the swift advantage of the hours.”

“Grief makes one hour ten.”

“He makes a July's day short as December.”

“Time be thine,And thy best graces spend it at thy will.”

“The old folk, time's doting chronicles.”

“Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.”

“Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!”