Quotes about time
261 quotes from 169 people
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
Hippocrates460–370 BCPrecepts, Ch. 1, as translated by W. H. S. Jones (1923).It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
Hippocrates460–370 BCThe Law, 3.Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 3, p. 21The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899What Is Religion? (1899) is Ingersoll’s last public address, delivered before the American Free Religious association, Boston, June 2, 1899
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Tragedy of Irene (1749), Act III, Sc. 2
Erica Jongborn 1942Fear of Flying (1973)
Ben Jonson1572–1637To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (First Folio, 1623), line 43
Janis Joplin1943–1970Comments on a performance of “Ball and Chain” Festival Express (1970)The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz Kafka1883–1924The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
