1. "History: An illusion caused by the passage of time."
Other categories: History and Nations
2. "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
3. "Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Other categories: Life and Death
4. "Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."
Anita Brookner, "The Misalliance"
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Youth and Age
5. "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
L.P. (Leslie Poles) Hartley, "The Go-Between"
André Bazin, "What is Cinema?"
Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Various
7. "You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side."
William Ewart Gladstone, speech to the House of Commons
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
8. "People who are lonely are those who do not know what to do with the time when they are alone."
Quentin Crisp
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
9. "Live today for tomorrow it will all be history."
proverb
10. "The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."
Horace, "Epistles"
Other categories: Youth and Age
11. "As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed."
William Gibson
12. "Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."
Michael Landon
Albert Einstein, "Letter to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium"
Other categories: Youth and Age
Horace
Other categories: Happiness
Paul Gauguin
Other categories: Life and Death
17. "Time is the only critic without ambition."
John Steinbeck
Other categories: Art and Culture
18. "About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
Herbert Hoover
19. "Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago."
Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
Other categories: Life and Death -:- Woman and Man
20. "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
William Gibson
Why not a gift:
Women's Shoes -:- Militaria -:- Dolls -:- Genealogy
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Other categories: Life and Death
22. "Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."
Francis Bacon
Other categories: Happiness -:- Life and Death
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Success and Fame
24. "Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals."
Henry Louis Mencken
Other categories: Law and Crime -:- Manners and Ethics
25. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."
Andy Warhol
Other categories: Success and Fame
26. "The word "tomorrow" was invented for indecisive people and for children."
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, "Andrei Kolosov"
27. "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
Franklin P. Jones
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
28. "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
Oscar Wilde
30. "Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
Thomas Carlyle, "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays"
Other categories: Oration and Silence
31. "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
Niels Bohr
32. "Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow."
Franz Grillparzer, "Libussa"
Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"
34. "Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end. "
Multatuli (Eduard Douwer Dekker), "The Oyster and the Eagle"
Other categories: Life and Death
35. "The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
Frank Lloyd Wright, "The Living City"
Other categories: Optimism and Hope
C. Northcote Parkinson
Other categories: Work and Laziness
Harold Rosenberg, "The Tradition of the New"
Other categories: History and Nations
38. "Punctuality is the soul of business."
Thomas C. Haliburton, "Sam Slick?s Wise Saws"
39. "We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."
Roald Dahl
Other categories: Work and Laziness
Frank Zappa, "The Real Frank Zappa Book"
Other categories: Art and Culture
41. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Power and Weakness
42. "Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."
Natalie Clifford Barney
Other categories: Pain and Tears
Luigi Pirandello, "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
44. "Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."
Ingmar Bergman
Other categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Life and Death
45. "The future is a better key to the present than the past."
James Graham Ballard
46. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
Other categories: Optimism and Hope
James Burke
André Dubus
Other categories: Various -:- Reality and Imagination
Carl Sandburg
Other categories: Life and Death
50. "The future is much like the present, only longer."
Dan Quisenberry