Time Theft Quotes

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

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

Economy is the thief of time.

That old bald cheater, Time.

Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.

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.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

Punctuality is the thief of time

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.