Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

The present is a point just passed.
David Russell

The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
William Shakespeare

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine

You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie