Time Quotes

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." ~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen "Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde With them who stood upon the brink of the great gulf which none can see beyond, Time, so soon to lose itself in vast Eternity, rolled on like a mighty river, swollen and rapid as it nears the sea. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens All things pass. Only remain cosmic force and matter, ever in flux, ever acting and reacting and realizing the eternal types—the priest, the soldier, and the king. Out of the mouths of babes comes the wisdom of all the ages. Some will fight, some will rule, some will pray; and all the rest will toil and suffer sore while on their bleeding carcasses is reared again, and yet again, without end, the amazing beauty and surpassing wonder of the civilized state. ~ The Scarlet Plague by Jack London The time is out of joint:—O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right! ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage." ~ Henrietta Temple by Benjamin Disraeli "Time is the great physician." ~ Henrietta Temple by Benjamin Disraeli "Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends." ~ Henry VI, Part One by William Shakespeare Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. ~ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll