time Quotes

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.