Time Quotes
We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.
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"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all"Herodotus
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour"Herodotus
"Our life is short, and the Craft so long to learn."Hippocrates
"The art is long, life is short."Hippocrates
"Do not peer too far ahead; attend to the present."Pindar
"Time is the judge of all things."Pindar
"Time is a river of passing events."Pindar
"Time itself is written in the movements of celestial bodies."Hipparchus
"Time is the most precious thing a man can spend."Xenophon
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."Xenophon
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."Aesop
"Time is the justice that examines all offenders."Thucydides
"The future is purchased by the present."Thucydides
"The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time goes by, and I sleep alone."Sappho
"The bloom of youth fades like petals scattered by the wind."Sappho
"Time steals everything but the memory of love."Sappho
"Water and time are two things that conquer all."Herodotus
"Time is the judge of all things, and it judges truly."Herodotus
"The proper use of time is to invest it in the expansion of knowledge."Hippocrates
"Even the gods cannot fight against necessity and time."Pindar
"Memory preserves what time cannot steal from those who remember."Pindar
"Time is the greatest artist; it sculpts all things into their final form."Pindar
"Memory is the treasury of all things; without it, we are mere shadows."Xenophon
"It is in vain to set a net for a bird after it has flown away."Aesop
"Time is the greatest healer of all wounds."Aesop
"Nothing is permanent except atoms and the void."Leucippus
"Atoms are eternal; only their arrangements are temporary."Leucippus
"Atoms eternal, arrangements temporal."Leucippus
"Time alone reveals the just and unjust."Thucydides
"Time is the judge of all things; it reveals what was hidden and hides what was revealed."Thucydides