Famous Quotes

"Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind."

Nathaniel Hawthorne on Time

More quotes about Time

• "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

  Roger Babson on Time

• "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

  Abraham Lincoln on Time

• "Lost time is never found again."

  Benjamin Franklin on Time

• "Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

  Jean de La Fontaine on Time

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

  C. S. Lewis on Time

More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• "Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

• "Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."

• "We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death."

• "The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one's family and friends and lastly, the solid cash."

• "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."