一寸光陰一寸金

Lost time is never found again.—Benjamin Franklin

光陰一去不復返。

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by； but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.—James M. Barrie

總被奉勸：錦瑟華年毋虛度，但有時偏是那虛度，方成就錦繡年華。

Time moves in one direction， memory in another.—William Gibson

時間向一個方向前行，而記憶卻朝另一個方向。

Time is what we want most， but what we use worst.—William Penn

時間是我們最想要的東西，也是我們最沒有充分利用的東西。

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.—Nelson Mandela

我們必須明智地利用時間，永遠要認識到做正義的事，時機總是成熟的。

You may delay， but time will not.—Benjamin Franklin

你也許會滯留原地，但時間絕對不會。

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.—Henry David Thoreau

時間只是我垂釣的溪流。

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.—George Bernard Shaw

如果時間足夠，任何事都會或早或遲地發生在任何人身上。

I must govern the clock， not be governed by it.—Golda Meir

我一定要支配時間，而非被它支配。

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.—Thomas Hardy

時間改變一切，除了我們那永遠在為變化而驚訝的內心。