Time

Once you reach a certain age, every 15 minutes is breakfast.

Time is God’s way of keeping everything from happening all at once. –graffiti in the men’s room at McCabe’s in Santa Monica; also attributed to Albert Einstein

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. –Stephen Swid

“Three to five years” has become a fixed entry on the psychological timeline, the progression from “just a second” to “two minutes” to “next week” and so on. It’s what you might call a cognitive reference point, a shorthand expression representing a perception of time rather than a literal quantification of it. The progression is logarithmic, because we recognize fewer distinctions—three to five years, a decade, a generation, a lifetime—as time extends beyond the present. –Ben McGrath

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. –Steven Wright

The social psychologist Robert Levine, who has devoted decades to studying people’s ideas about time, suggests that cultures can be divided into those which live on “event time,” where events are allowed to dictate people’s schedules, and those which live on “clock time,” where people’s schedules dictate events. Unsurprisingly, countries that live on clock time are more successful economically—if perhaps less fun at night—than those which do not. –James Surowiecki

Time is a kindly god. –Sophocles

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time. –Marilyn Monroe

Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas. –Groucho Marx

Time is finite, and as any serious endeavor is going to require a great deal of effort and application, you really ought to knuckle down now and do some work. –Michael Berkeley

For time is time, and runs away. –T.S. Eliot

I am convinced that we are not made for clear-cut, well-delineated schedules. We are made to live like firemen, with downtime for lounging and meditating between calls, under the protection of protective uncertainty. … As I am writing these lines I am on a slow train in the Alps, comfortably shielded from traveling businesspersons. People around me are either students or retired persons, or those who do not have “important appointments,” hence are not afraid of what they call wasted time. To go from Munich to Milan, I picked the seven-and-a-half hour train instead of the plane, which no self-respecting businessperson would do on a weekday, and am enjoying an air unpolluted by persons squeezed by life. … [Y]ou can decide whether to be (relatively) poor, but free of your time, or rich but as dependent as a slave. –Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness

Geological time is not money. –Mark Twain

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

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

You can't live in the present any more than you can live in the border between Kent and Sussex. –Michael Frayn