Time

 

Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

– Baltasar Gracian

 

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’

– John F. Kennedy

 

All movements go too far.

– Bertrand Russell

 

The passing minute is every man’s equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

– Marcus Aurelius

 

 

Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.

 George Ade

 

To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it; on the contrary, we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.

– Josi Ortega y Gasset

 

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

– Agathon

 

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

– Stephenie Meyer

 

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

– George Herbert

 

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

– Josi Incenieros

 

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

– Rabindranath Tagore

 

For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

– Doug Larson

 

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

– Jean-Paul Sartre

 

Time is a test of trouble – but not a remedy – If such it proved, it proves too, there was no melody.

– Emily Dickinson