Richard H. Stoddard Quotes

We can change everything but we can't stop time.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Time brings all things to pass.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Time and chance reveal all secrets.

The two grand tyrants of the Earth, Time and Chance.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

In a year's time, he's a year older.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

The older we become, the more certain our future.

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Time conquers all, and we must time obey.