Quotes

For lovers time is always short, and no path is ever long enough for them.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

And in every beginning there dwells a magic.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Like the generations of leaves, so are those of men.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to one who asks, I do not know.

But meanwhile time flies, flies never to be regained.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.