Jonathan Swift Quotes

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

I don't know where the time went. I sure have enjoyed it.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.

Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.

Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

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?

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.