time Quotes

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.