458 quotes found
“Still on it creeps Each little moment at another's heels Till hours days years and ages are made up Of such small parts as these and men look back Worn and bewilder'd wondering how it is.”
“Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.”
“Time wasted is a theft from God.”
“Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.”
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
“Live in day-tight compartments.”
“Killing time is the chief end of our society.”
“If you are not happy here and now you never will be.”
“You can kill time or kill yourself it comes to the same thing in the end.”
“No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.”
“He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that. . . every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.”
“Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.”
“Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.”
“Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.”
“Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.”
“Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.”
“If you want to kill time try working it to death.”
“Leisure for reverie gay or somber does much to enrich life.”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”
“If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.”