Robert W. Service Quotes

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

Time needs another minute.

There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible. Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

You may delay, but time will not.