Time Quotes

Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.~ English Proverb

A chicken you eat only once — eggs a hundred times.~ Tajikistani Proverb

A day is long, but a lifetime is short.~ Russian Proverb

All times are good when old.~ Polish Proverb

A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end–and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka.~ Yiddish Proverb

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure .~ Traditional Proverb

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.~ Chinese Proverb

A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.~ Persian Proverb

A timely “no” beats a hasty “yes.” ~ Brazilian Proverb

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.~ Greek Proverb

Better to write down something one time than to read something ten times.~ Japanese Proverb

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.~ Ghanaian Proverb

Consider the facts seven times before you suspect someone.~ Japanese Proverb

Disgrace is like the grain of a tree trunk — time makes it bigger instead of erasing it.~ Japanese Proverb

Do everything at the right time and one day will seem like three.~ Chinese Proverb

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.~ Chinese Proverb

Eat when the meal is ready, speak when the time is ripe.~ Ethiopian Proverb

Every dog knows his dinnertime.~ Jamaican Proverb

Every seed knows its time.~ Russian Proverb

Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait.~ French Proverb

Fish must swim three times: once in the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.~ French Proverb

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.~ Traditional Proverb

For he who has the time even the jungle is a paradise.~ Sri Lankan Proverb

For lazy people it is always party time.~ Greek Proverb

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.~ Chinese Proverb

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.~ French Proverb

Going into a country the first time, ask what is forbidden; on entering a village, ask what are the customs; on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned.~ Chinese Proverb

Good things require time.~ Dutch Proverb

Great deeds come from times of shortage.~ Japanese Proverb

He who does not know what to do in his spare time is not a businessman.~ Chinese Proverb

He who is warned in time is saved.~ Chilean Proverb

He who slowly gets angry will stay angry for a long time.~ Hungarian Proverb

If it’s not your time, you won’t be born and you won’t die.~ Corsican Proverb

If it rained macaroni, what a fine time for gluttons!~ Italian Proverb

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.~ Chinese Proverb

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.~ Chinese Proverb

If your time ain’t come not even a doctor can kill you.~ American Proverb

In the garden of time grows the flower of consolation.~ Russian Proverb

It is never too late to ask what time it is.~ Traditional Proverb

It is not enough to run; you must start on time.~ French Proverb

It is only idle people who can find time for everything.~ French Proverb

It takes time to build castles.~ Irish Proverb

It takes two days to learn everything about a man; to know animals You will need more time.~ Iranian Proverb

Lazy men get active when it’s time to sleep.~ German Proverb

Lazy people always want to do everything at the same time.~ Chinese Proverb

Lazy people have no spare time.~ Japanese Proverb

Life itself cannot give you joy/ Unless you really will it./ Life just gives you time and space — It’s up to you to fill it.~ Chinese Proverb

Love kills time and time kills love.~ Italian Proverb

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.~ French Proverb

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.~ Chinese Proverb

Mother Nature, time and patience are the three best doctors.~Bulgarian Proverb

No man can paddle two canoes at the same time.~ Bantu Proverb

Nothing is more changeable than time and a woman.~ Romanian Proverb

No time like the present.~ Traditional Proverb

One cannot blow and swallow at the same time.~ Spanish Proverb

One step at a time is good walking.~ Chinese Proverb

One time “here you are” is better than ten times “heaven help you.” ~ German Proverb

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.~ Traditional Proverb

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry becomes silk.~ Chinese Proverb

People live like birds in a wood: When the time comes, each takes flight.~ Chinese Proverb

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.~ Chinese Proverb

Procrastination is the thief of time.~ Chinese Proverb

Something done at the wrong time should be regarded as not one.~ Indian Proverb

Tell a woman once she is beautiful and the devil will repeat it ten times.~ French Proverb
The day is short and work lasts a long time.~ Hebrew Proverb

The day you are leaving is not the time to start your reparations.~ Nigerian Proverb

The dog has four feet, but he does not walk in four roads at the same time.~ Haitian Proverb

The first time you cheat me, be ashamed. The second time it is I who must be ashamed.~ Chinese Proverb

The happier the time, the more quickly it passes.~ Latin Proverb

The harvest of a whole year depends on what you sow in the springtime ~ Chinese Proverb

There has to be a first time for everything — even our most natural habits ~ Arabian Proverb

There is a time to fish and a time to dry the nets.~ Chinese Proverb

There is no hand to catch time.~ Indian Proverb

The right man comes at the right time.~ Italian Proverb

The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor, when he has something to eat.~ Mexican Proverb

The tail of an ox says, “Time goes, time comes.”~ Creole Proverb

The white flower has bloomed — it is time to sleep outside.~ Fijian Proverb

Third time lucky.~ Traditional Proverb

Three times an early rise makes a whole day.~ Chinese Proverb

Time and I against any two.~ Spanish Proverb

Time and place make the thief.~ Dutch Proverb

Time and tide wait for no men.~ English Proverb

Time builds castles, and time destroys them.~ Serbian Proverb

Time chases love away and love chases the time away.~ German Proverb

Time flies when you are among friends.~ Basque Proverb

Time has no respect for beauty.~ Polish Proverb

Time heals all wounds.~ English Proverb

Time is a great healer.~ Traditional Proverb

Time is a great story teller.~ Irish Proverb

Time is anger’s medicine.~ German Proverb

Time is longer than a rope.~ Virgin Islander Proverb

Time is the best adviser.~ Greek Proverb

Time is the master of him who has no master.~ Arabian Proverb

Time is the soul of business.~ English Proverb

Time is the soul of the world.~ Greek Proverb

Times are not always the same; the grass is not always green.~ Mongolian Proverb

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.~ Japanese Proverb

Time tries truth.~ Traditional Proverb

Time waits for no one.~ Japanese Proverb

Time will tell.~ Traditional Proverb

To be a fool at the right time is an art.~ French Proverb

To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times — madness.~ Dutch Proverb

Too much hurry, and get there tomorrow; take time, get there today.~ Jamaican Proverb

Truth is the daughter of time.~ Traditional Proverb

Two times good — one time stupid.~ French Proverb

Wasting time is stealing from oneself.~ Estonian Proverb

We are all a long time dead.~ French Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.~ Scottish Proverb

What you give you get, ten times over.~ Beninese Proverb

When the time comes for you to live, there aren’t enough years.~  Yaddish Proverb

When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend :,read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.~ Chinese Proverb

Why kill time when one can employ it.~ French Proverb

With time even a bear can learn to dance.~ Yiddish Proverb

You can accompany a friend for a thousand miles but at some time you must take your leave.~ Chinese Proverb

You cannot have the bacon and the pig at the same time.~ French Proverb

You have to give time some time.~ French Proverb

You may well have two legs but you still can’t climb two trees at the same time.~ Ethiopian Proverb

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