Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

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"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all"
Herodotus
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"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour"
Herodotus
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"Our life is short, and the Craft so long to learn."
Hippocrates
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"The art is long, life is short."
Hippocrates
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"Do not peer too far ahead; attend to the present."
Pindar
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"Time is the judge of all things."
Pindar
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"Time is a river of passing events."
Pindar
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"Time itself is written in the movements of celestial bodies."
Hipparchus
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"Time is the most precious thing a man can spend."
Xenophon
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"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
Xenophon
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Aesop
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"Time is the justice that examines all offenders."
Thucydides
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"The future is purchased by the present."
Thucydides
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"The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time goes by, and I sleep alone."
Sappho
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"The bloom of youth fades like petals scattered by the wind."
Sappho
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"Time steals everything but the memory of love."
Sappho
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"Water and time are two things that conquer all."
Herodotus
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"Time is the judge of all things, and it judges truly."
Herodotus
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"The proper use of time is to invest it in the expansion of knowledge."
Hippocrates
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"Even the gods cannot fight against necessity and time."
Pindar
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"Memory preserves what time cannot steal from those who remember."
Pindar
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"Time is the greatest artist; it sculpts all things into their final form."
Pindar
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"Memory is the treasury of all things; without it, we are mere shadows."
Xenophon
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"It is in vain to set a net for a bird after it has flown away."
Aesop
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"Time is the greatest healer of all wounds."
Aesop
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"Nothing is permanent except atoms and the void."
Leucippus
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"Atoms are eternal; only their arrangements are temporary."
Leucippus
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"Atoms eternal, arrangements temporal."
Leucippus
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"Time alone reveals the just and unjust."
Thucydides
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"Time is the judge of all things; it reveals what was hidden and hides what was revealed."
Thucydides