Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Wrinkles, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1055, Delphi Classics

• Time steals away without any inconvenience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Stealing, Inconvenience

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

• Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Should Have, Age

  Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”, p.246

• For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Truth, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

• Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Long, Existentialism

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.66, Stanford University Press

• Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Time, Men

• I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Vocabulary, Self

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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