Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Quote by John Randolph

Topics: Time Quotes

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm always turn sour

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm always turn sour

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if...

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if...

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse...

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse...

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money

It took only a moment to cause this head to fall and a hundred years...

It took only a moment to cause this head to fall and a hundred years...

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in...

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in...

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst...

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst...

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little...

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little...

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in...

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in...

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a...

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while...

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while...

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere...

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere...