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| A little time may be enough to hatch a great mischief. | 1 |
| A hundred years hence we shall all be bald. Spanish. | 2 |
| A hundred years is not much, but never is a long while. French. | 3 |
| A thousand years hence the river will run as it did. | 4 |
| All the treasures of the earth would not bring back one lost moment. French. | 5 |
| An hour after twelve is just one whatever you do. German. | 6 |
| As good have no time as make no good use of it. | 7 |
| Better to take time. Latin. | 8 |
| Every scrap of a wise man’s time is worth saving. | 9 |
| Everything has its time. Portuguese. | 10 |
| Everything has its time and that time must be watched. | 11 |
| He is behind the times; i.e., old fashioned. | 12 |
| He that has most time has none to lose. | 13 |
| He that hath time and looketh for more, loseth time. | 14 |
| He who gains time gains everything. Benjamin Disraeli. | 15 |
| Hour by hour time departs. Italian. | 16 |
| I have lost a day. (Perdidi diem.) Titus. | 17 |
| If the time don’t suit you, suit yourself to the time. Turkish. | 18 |
| If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Franklin. | 19 |
| In less than a thousand years we shall all be bald. Spanish. | 20 |
| In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. Shakespeare. | 21 |
| It is all one a hundred years hence. | 22 |
| It is good to be in good time, you know not how long it will last. | 23 |
| It is time enough to set when the oven comes to the dough. | 24 |
| It is time enough to take off your hat when you see the man. Danish. | 25 |
“I’ve lost a day!” the prince who nobly cried,
Had been an emperor without his crown. Young. | 26 |
| It will be all the same an hundred years hence. | 27 |
| Lost time never returns. German. | 28 |
| Lost time and opportunities can never be recovered. | 29 |
| Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Franklin. | 30 |
| Man cannot buy time. German. | 31 |
| Nae man can tether time or tide. Burns. | 32 |
| Once in every ten years every man needs his neighbor. | 33 |
| Once in ten years one man hath need of another. | 34 |
| Other times, other counsels. Portuguese. | 35 |
| Other times, other folks. Danish. | 36 |
| Other times, other manners. French. | 37 |
| Our time runs on like a stream; first fall the leaves and then the tree. Dutch. | 38 |
| Suit yourself to the times. German. | 39 |
| Take time by the forelock. | 40 |
| Take time for deliberation, haste spoils everything. Statius. | 41 |
| Take time to be quick. | 42 |
| Take time when time is, for time will away. | 43 |
| The best preacher is time. German. | 44 |
| The complaint of the present times is the general complaint of all times. | 45 |
| The crutch of time does more than the club of Hercules. | 46 |
| “The good old times,” all times when old are good. Byron. | 47 |
| The good time comes but once. Italian. | 48 |
| The greatest expense we can be at is that of our time. | 49 |
| The heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrong. Shakespeare. | 50 |
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| The past is for wisdom, the present for action, but for joy the future. Benjamin Disraeli. | 51 |
The time of life is short,
To spend that shortness basely ’twere too long. Shakespeare. | 52 |
| The time of the prince is the property of the people. Gibbon. | 53 |
| The time to come is no more ours than the time past. | 54 |
| There is a time for all things. | 55 |
| There is a time to fish and a time to dry nets. Chinese. | 56 |
| There is a time to jest and a time when jests are unreasonable. Don Quixote. | 57 |
| There is no appeal from time past. Italian. | 58 |
| There is no better counsellor than time. Greek. | 59 |
| There is no hand to catch time. Bengalese. | 60 |
| There is nothing more precious than time and nothing more prodigally wasted. | 61 |
| There’s naething more precious nor time. | 62 |
| They that make the best use of their time have none to spare. | 63 |
| Time and opportunity are no man’s slave. German. | 64 |
| Time and the hour are not to be tied with a rope. | 65 |
| Time and the hour run through the roughest (or longest) day. | 66 |
| Time and tide for no man bide. | 67 |
| Time and tide wait for no man. | 68 |
| Time and words can never be recalled. | 69 |
| Time at last sets all things even. Byron. | 70 |
| Time brings everything to those who can wait for it. German. | 71 |
| Time brings roses. German, Dutch. | 72 |
| Time covers and discovers everything. German. | 73 |
| Time discovers truth. Seneca. | 74 |
| Time dresses the greatest wounds. German. | 75 |
| Time devours all things. | 76 |
| Time does not bow to you, you must bow to time. Russian. | 77 |
| Time enough is little enough. | 78 |
| Time fleeth away without delay. | 79 |
Time flies on restless pinions, constant never,
Be constant and thou chainest time forever. Schiller. | 80 |
| Time gained, much gained. Dutch. | 81 |
| Time heals all things. | 82 |
| Time is a file that wears and makes no noise. | 83 |
| Time is anger’s medicine. German. | 84 |
| Time is an inaudible file. Italian. | 85 |
| Time is an unpaid advocate. German. | 86 |
| Time is a true friend to sorrow. Wordsworth. | 87 |
| Time is generally the best doctor. Ovid. | 88 |
| Time is God’s and ours. Dutch. | 89 |
| Time is money. Dutch, Turkish. | 90 |
| Time is not tied to a post like a horse to a manger. Danish. | 91 |
| Time is precious but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli. | 92 |
| Time is the best counsellor (or preacher). German. | 93 |
| Time is the greatest innovator. Bacon. | 94 |
| Time is the herald of truth. Cicero. | 95 |
| Time is the rider that breaks youth. | 96 |
| Time makes hay. German. | 97 |
| Time misspent is not lived but lost. Fuller. | 98 |
| Time, motion, and wine cause sleep. Ovid. | 99 |
| Time moves slowly to him whose employment is to watch its flight. Dr. Johnson. | 100 |
| Time passes like the wind. Portuguese. | 101 |
| Time past never returns, a moment lost, lost forever. Dr. Johnson. | 102 |
| Time reveals all things. | 103 |
| Time rolls his ceaseless course. Scott. | 104 |
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides;
Who cover faults at last shame them derides. Shakespeare. | 105 |
| Time stays not at the fool’s leisure. | 106 |
| Time stoops to no man’s lure. Swinburne. | 107 |
| Time subdues all things. Arabian Nights. | 108 |
| Time tint is ne’er to be found. | 109 |
| Time tries a’. | 110 |
| Time which obliterates the fictions of opinions confirms the decisions of nature. Cicero. | 111 |
| Time works wonders. German. | 112 |
| ’Tis time, conversation and business that discover what a man is. | 113 |
| ’Tis time to yoke when the cart comes to the oxen. | 114 |
| To him that does everything in its proper time one day is worth three. | 115 |
| To save time is to lengthen life. | 116 |
| We are all the balls of time, tossed to and fro, from the plough unto the throne and back again. Massinger. | 117 |
| We take no note of time but from its loss. Young. | 118 |
| What greater crime than loss of time. | 119 |
| What reason and endeavor cannot bring about time often will. | 120 |
| Who has no time yet waits for time, comes to a time of repentance. Spanish. | 121 |
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