"A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours."
John B. Priestly
"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."
Dean Acheson
"And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?"
Tillie Olsen
"As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!"
Henry David Thoreau
"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."
William Faulkner
"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."
Ambrose Bierce
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
George Bernard Shaw
"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
Doug Larson
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
Roger Babson
"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."
Dion Boucicault
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked."
Tillie Olsen
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
C. S. Lewis
"The Present is a Point just passed."
David Russell
"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
Paul Valery
"Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go."
Henry Austin Dobson
"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."
Kahlil Gibran
"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."
Faith Baldwin
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
Henry David Thoreau
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
Carl Sandburg
"Time is the longest distance between two places."
Tennessee Williams
"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn."
Delmore Schwartz