On Time Quotes

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

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.

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

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

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

Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day?

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

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

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

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

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

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.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.

You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.

If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.

Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

That's not to say I came from the streets or anything - most of the time I was on my grandmother's back porch. I was kept in a constant state of amniotic fluid.

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

I will paint for money any time.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.