“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”
Yogi Berra
47 quotes on time and how we spend it — from the classics to the everyday.
“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”
Yogi Berra
“The future ain't what it used to be.”
Yogi Berra
“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi · widely attributed
“Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“Bear in mind that everything that exists is already fraying at the edges.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
Pablo Neruda
“June is the gateway to summer.”
Jean Hersey · The Shape of a Year, 1967
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
John Steinbeck · Travels with Charley, 1962
“Then came the June stillness, the heavy heat, the throbbing silence of the summer afternoon.”
L. M. Montgomery
“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”
Al Bernstein
“June is bustin' out all over.”
Oscar Hammerstein II · Carousel, 1945
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
James Russell Lowell · The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848
“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”
Gertrude Jekyll · On Gardening
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
Tennessee Williams · The Glass Menagerie, 1944