Michel de Montaigne Time Quotations

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

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

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

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

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

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.

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.

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.

Time steals away without any inconvenience.