Time & Timing

I am always quarreling with time! It is so short to do something and so long to do nothing.

Queen Charlotte

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Leontyne Price

We must use time creatively...and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.

Albert Einstein

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Hippocrates

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Bernard Berenson

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Chesterfield

It takes a lot of time to be sentimental.

Don Herold

Life is short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be gained.

Stendhal

Time is the measure of business, as money is of wares.

Francis Bacon

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, times stays, we go.

Austin Dobson

Ah! The clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Robert W. Service

Time heals what reason cannot.

Seneca the Younger

Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

Time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Lord Chesterfield

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

G. K. Chesterton

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Faith Baldwin

What is a ruin but time easing itself in endurance?

Djuna Barnes

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Time — the devourer of all things.

Ovid

You may delay, but Time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

Time: that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Herbert Spencer

The ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

Time wounds all heels.

Jane Ace

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin