The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.

 Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.

Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.