#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!”

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.”

“Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.”

“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.”

“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”

“In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73”

“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.”

“And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;And thereby hangs a tale.”

“Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.”

“There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.”

“Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.”

“How long a time lies in one little word?”

“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”

“O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?”

“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.”

“For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.”

“Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.”

“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”

“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.”

“What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.”

“What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.”

“My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.”

“By-and-by is easily said.”

“Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.”

“Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.”