ownership of time Quotes

Nothing is ours except time.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.