Quotes About The Thief Of Time

#1. Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene

Edward Young

#2. Economy is the thief of time.

Ethel Mumford

#3. Punctuality is the thief of time

Oscar Wilde

#4. Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.

Patrick Taylor

#5. Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

Thomas S. Monson

#6. I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Oscar Wilde

#7. My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Charles Dickens

#8. Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!

Charles Dickens

#11. Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

Sara Teasdale

#12. Time's the thief of memory: that one he knew.

Stephen King

#13. Time, the greatest thief of all.

Ally Carter

#14. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

John Milton

#15. In my stolen photographs
for the photographer must be a thief, he must steal instants of other people's time to make his own tiny eternities
it was this intimacy I sought, hte closeness of the living and the dead.

Salman Rushdie

#16. Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.

Leigh Hershkovich

#17. Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.

Clive Cussler

#18. Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

John William Draper

#19. I could flee to the heath. Show them that they cannot keep me locked up, that I am a thief of time and will steal the hours denied to me!

Hannah Kent

#20. Time is the subtle thief of youth.

John Milton

#21. We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

Clive Barker

#22. Time's the thief of memory

Stephen King

#23. When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.

Audrey Niffenegger

#24. From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.

Angela Carter

#25. I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Tony Hillerman

#26. Her hand slid beneath his shirt with all the practiced grace of a thief. But this time she wanted him to feel her touch, her palms gliding over his ribs and around his back, fingertips digging into her shoulder blades.

V.E Schwab

#27. The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

Richard Paul Evans

#28. Time is not a thief but the giver of all things. Apathy, sloth and indifference are the thieves that loot the chest of wealth that time has given you"

Christopher Sharp

Christopher Sharp

#29. Time was a thief and Jackson felt he gained a small triumph by stealing back some of the early hours

Kate Atkinson

#30. If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

Julianna Baggott