Francis Quarles Quotes

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Time just gets away from us.

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

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

If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.

Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

I've never planned ahead.I just sort of go through life checking the menu of three meals that day. I never worry about tomorrow. It's only since I've gotten older that I've begun to wonder about time running out. Is it sufficient unto itself that I don't plan? Because maybe next Thursday won't come one day. And then, I'm concerned about that. But that's not uniquely the writer's concern, that's the concern of every middle-aged man who looks in the mirror.