"Time is...Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But, for those who love... Time is not." ~Henry Van Dyke

No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~Terry Pratchett

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

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

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

It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six.
Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath beat enough.
Now sleep and rest;
Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;
I'll wind thee up no more.
~Ben Jonson

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Hungarian Horntail," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~The Talmud

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. ~Elbert Hubbard

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? ~Paracelsus

The time you think you're missing, misses you too. ~Ymber Delecto

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

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root. ~Edward Young

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. ~Martin H. Fischer

Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles

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

Time is the longest distance between two places. ~Tennessee Williams

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

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Louis Hector Berlioz

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ~Author Unknown