Top 33 Daylight Savings Time Quotes

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Daylight savings time is when you move your clock forward by a hour in the spring and a hour back in the fall. With that in mind, check out the top 33 daylight savings time quotes.

#33 – 30. Daylight Savings Quotes

33. “I say it is impossible that so sensible a people, under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome and enormously expensive light of candles if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.” — Benjamin Franklin

32. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” — C.S. Lewis

31. “I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the daylight saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.” — Robertson Davies

30. “Daylight time, a monstrosity in timekeeping.” — Harry S. Truman

#29 – 20. Daylight Savings Quotes

29. “You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight saving time.” — Dave Barry

28. “I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.” — Victor Borge

27. “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” — Gustav Mahler

26. “Don’t forget it’s daylight saving time. You spring forward, then you fall back.” — David Letterman

25. “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” — Philip Stanhope

24. “As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it.” – Robertson Davies

23. “Love prefers twilight to daylight.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

22. “Time passes irrevocably.” — Virgil

21. “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” — Albert Einstein

20. “In a ghost story, usually you’ve got to hang on until daylight, and you’ll be alright. But if daylight’s four months away, then you have a problem.” — Michelle Paver

#19 – 10. Daylight Savings Quotes

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

18. “Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” — Bill Keane

17. “For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

15. “One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Saving Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.” — James Gleick

14. “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” — Steve Jobs

13. “We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.” — Rene Magritte

12. “I’ve lived on the equator all my life and we never had to change clocks. Now they’re telling me time goes forward an hour after midnight? What is this, Narnia?” ― Joyce Rachelle

11. “I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.” — Victor Borge

10. “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” — Marcus Aurelius

#9 – 1. Daylight Savings Quotes

9. “There’s time enough, but none to spare.” — Charles W. Chesnutt

8. “Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.” — Helena Rubinstein

7. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” — Bertrand Russell

6. “How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” — Dr. Seuss

5. “An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.” — Winston Churchill

4. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” — Theophrastus

3. “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.” — St. Augustine

2. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” — William Shakespeare

1.”It seems very strange … that in the course of the world’s history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. … The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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