Sayings about Time
Time is a great story teller. ~ Irish Proverb
Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away. ~ French Proverb
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. ~ Chinese Proverb
It takes time to build castles. ~ Irish Proverbs
There is a time and place for everything. ~ Traditional Proverb
The day is short and work lasts a long time. ~ Hebrew Proverb
It is never too late to ask what time it is. ~ Traditional Proverb
Time has no respect for beauty. ~ Polish Proverbs
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~ Scottish Proverbs
It is not enough to run; you must start on time. ~ French Proverb
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~ Chinese Proverb
It’s better to arrive on time than to be invited. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. ~ Japanese Proverbs
The cure for bad times is patience. ~ Arabian Proverb
You can’t buy an inch of time with an inch of gold. ~ Chinese Proverb
It is only idle people who can find time for everything. ~ French Proverb
Time will tell. ~ Traditional Proverb
Hours are Time’s shafts, and one comes winged with death. ~ Scottish Proverb
The poor have no time to spare. ~ Japanese Proverb
Time waits for no one. ~ Japanese Proverb
Every seed knows its time. ~ Russian Proverbs
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty. ~ English Proverbs
With time even a bear can learn to dance. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Time and place make the thief. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Do everything at the right time and one day will seem like three. ~ Chinese Proverb
Eat when the meal is ready, speak when the time is ripe. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
Our time runs on like a stream; first fall the leaves and then the tree. ~ Dutch Proverb
Time builds castles, and time destroys them. ~ Serbian Proverb
Men fear, but time fears the pyramids. ~ Arabian Proverb
Time is longer than a rope. ~ Virgin Islander Proverb
Lazy men get active when it’s time to sleep. ~ German Proverbs
Times are not always the same; the grass is not always green. ~ Mongolian Proverb
Quicker by taking more time. ~ Traditional Proverb
Time is a river of passing events — a rushing torrent. ~ Greek Proverbs
In the garden of time grows the flower of consolation. ~ Russian Proverb
Time is the master of him who has no master. ~ Arabian Proverb
He who does not know what to do in his spare time is not a businessman. ~ Chinese Proverb
Love kills time and time kills love. ~ Italian Proverbs
Truth is the daughter of time. ~ Traditional Proverb
You have to give time some time. ~ French Proverb
Good things require time. ~ Dutch Proverb
For lazy people it is always party time. ~ Greek Proverb
The day you are leaving is not the time to start your preparations. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Patience, money and time bring all things to past. ~ Traditional Proverb
When the time comes for you to live, there aren’t enough years. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Never spend time with people who don’t respect you. ~ New Zealander Proverb
Time is anger’s medicine. ~ German Proverb
Distance tests a horse’s strength; time reveals a marls character. ~ Chinese Proverb
To be a fool at the right time is also an art. ~ Swiss Proverbs
Time flies when you are among friends. ~ Basque Proverb
The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor, when he has something to eat. ~ Mexican Proverb
There is no hand to catch time. ~ Indian Proverbs
Nothing is more changeable than time and a woman. ~ Romanian Proverb
There has to be a first time for everything — even our most natural habits. ~ Arabian Proverb
Wasting time is stealing from oneself. ~ Estonian Proverb
If it weren’t for sorrow and bad times, every day would be Christmas. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves. ~ English Proverb
Procrastination is the thief of time. ~ Chinese Proverb
Too much hurry, and get there tomorrow; take time, get there today. ~ Jamaican Proverb
You have to bow a few times before you can stand upright. ~ Japanese Proverb
Time destroys all things. ~ Dutch Proverb
Time heals all wounds. ~ English Proverb
Time is a great healer. ~ Traditional Proverb
There is always lots of time to die and to pay. ~ Catalonian Proverb
Time and tide wait for no men. ~ English Proverb
The tail of an ox says, “Time goes, time comes.” ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
If your time ain’t come not even a doctor can kill you. ~ American Proverb
Time is the best adviser. ~ Greek Proverb
Why kill time when one can employ it?. ~ French Proverb
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. ~ Traditional Proverb
There is a time to fish and a time to dry the nets. ~ Chinese Proverb
No time like the present. ~ Traditional Proverb
Flint and gunpowder: every time they meet there is an explosion. ~ Malagasy Proverb
Time is the soul of business. ~ English Proverb
Life just gives you time and space — It’s up to you to fill it. ~ Chinese Proverb
The right man comes at the right time. ~ Italian Proverb
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones. ~ Hebrew Proverb
An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold. ~ Chinese Proverb
All times are good when old. ~ Polish Proverb
Mother Nature, time and patience are the three best doctors. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
Three times an early rise makes a whole day. ~ Chinese Proverb
Time chases love away and love chases the time away. ~ German Proverb
The person who is tired will find time to sleep. ~ Traditional Proverb
Time is the soul of the world. ~ Greek Proverb
Better to blush once than pale a hundred times. ~ Serbian Proverb
If the time has passed, there is no point in preparing. ~ Yemeni Proverbs
People say that time goes by; time says that the people go by. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
All things grow with time — except grief. ~ Jewish Proverb
Something done at the wrong time should be regarded as not done. ~ Indian Proverb
If it’s not your time, you won’t be born and you won’t die. ~ Corsican Proverb
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. ~ Scottish Proverb
Time, not medicine, cures the sick. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
Time cures the sick man, not the ointment. ~ Traditional Proverb
The time to make friends is before you need them. ~ Traditional Proverb
Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait. ~ French Proverb
Time has strong teeth. ~ Norwegian Proverbs
Time and I against any two. ~ Spanish Proverb
The happier the time, the more quickly it passes. ~ Latin Proverbs
Borrowed money shortens time; working for others lengthens it. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about Time
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. ~ Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Time too stops dead. ~ Angelus Silesius
Time is money. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ~ Austin Dobson
There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time. ~ Coco Chanel
The real secret of how to use time is , to pack it as you would a portmanteau, filling up the small spaces with small things. ~ Henry Haddow
Time stays long enough for those who use it. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. ~ Dietrich Bonboeffer
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points. ~ Taisen Deshimaru
Time is too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not. ~ Henry Van Dyke
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. ~ Henry Ford Quotes
he strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. ~ Leo Tolstoy
One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. . ~ Peter F. Drucker
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can’t reuse time. ~ Merrick Furst
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~ Charles Dickens Quotes
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed. ~ Peter F. Drucker
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~ Dion Boucicault
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying. ~ Tryon Edwards
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ~ Henry Austin Dobson
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
Money-All my possessions for a moment of time. ~ Queen Elizabeth
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
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition.~ Peter F. Drucker
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom. ~ Bertrand Russell
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. Nothing is impossible. ~ Sophocles
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed…. Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all. ~ Norman Cousins
There is time for everything. ~ Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. ~ Roald Dahl
Money-Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don’t let other people spend it for you. ~ John Dryden
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. ~ Author Unknown
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. ~ John F. Kennedy
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold. ~ John Milton
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. ~ Peter F. Drucker
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ~ John B. Priestly
Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time” is to say “I don’t want to.” ~ Lao Tzu
You can’t measure time in days the way you can money in dollars, because each day is different. ~ Phillip Hewett
We all find time to do what we really want to do. ~ William Feather
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Time, like money, is measured by our needs. ~ George Eliot
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~ Osbert Sitwell
Money-Time is money says the Proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ~ George Robert Gissing
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Time itself is an element. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Time brings all things to pass. ~ Aeschylus
Money-Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial. ~ Frank Dane
The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time. ~ Robert M. Fine
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~ John Archibald Wheeler
Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician. ~ Lucille S. Harper
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals. ~ Joseph Addison
Time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Delmore Schwartz
The best way to fill time is to waste it. ~ Marguerite Duras
All time management begins with planning. ~ Tom Greening
Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment. ~ Arthur Brisbane
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Time spent on hiring is time well spent. ~ Robert Half
Time is a circus always packing up and moving away. ~ Ben Hecht
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
Money-Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. ~ Laertius Diogenes
19 Time Quotations more
- Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. – Groucho Marx, American comedian and film star.
- Time is the wisest counselor of all. – Pericles, Ancient Greek statesman.
- Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. – Faith Baldwin, American author.
- Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Marthe Troly-Curtin, British author.
- The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist.
- Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian.
- Time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams, American playwright.
- Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. – William Penn, English Quaker leader.
- They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. – Andy Warhol, American artist.
- Time is the thief of memory. – Stephen King, American author.
- Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Hector Berlioz, French composer.
- Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light. – Thales, Ancient Greek philosopher.
- Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author.
- Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending. – Charles Chaplin, English comic actor.
- Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. – Ray Cummings, American author.
- Time is the mother of truth. – François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer.
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current. – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and philosopher.
- Time is a game played beautifully by children. – Heraclitus, Ancient Greek philosopher.
- Time is an illusion. – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist.