Proverbs about time: folk wisdom that keeps the clock

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:48

Managing your time successfully is a goal that many people set for themselves. But not everyone is able to really achieve it. Often a person notices that he did not manage to do even half of what was planned for the whole day - "time has flowed like sand." But how does this happen and how not to waste it in vain? To do this, you need to listen to the wisdom expressed in folk proverbs and sayings.

How time really passes

Proverbs about time is the best time management textbook. Weighty volumes on this discipline offer hundreds of solutions, but in popular wisdom its ideas are most succinctly expressed. “If you miss a minute, you lose hours,” says one of the proverbs. What does this mean? Everyone has probably noticed how quickly time passes while shopping, talking on the phone or simply “sitting” on the Internet. It seems that one has only to go to the social network page, as it turns out that you have already been sitting there for several hours. The same is true for shopping in major cities. People spend precious weekends on them, wandering the shelves for days with an endless selection of goods.

And sometimes even something as simple as“Drink tea” stretches instead of the prescribed ten minutes for half an hour. Other proverbs about time also warn people against such waste: “The day is leaving - you won’t tie it to the wattle fence”, “Time is not a bird - you won’t catch it by the tail.”

How to deal with temporary losses?

Here, again, you can open any manual about time management. And you can listen to proverbs. “Know the price of minutes, the score of seconds,” says folk wisdom. Often proverbs about time reflect modern concepts of time management. This, for example, is the modern idea of timekeeping: careful tracking of all time expenditures. To use this time management tool, you just need to get a notebook and throughout the day write down what the hours of the current day are spent on.

Proverbs about time and hope for the best

There are also expressions that come from the depths of time that can inspire hope in the hopeless. For example, such a proverb is the following: "No matter how long the night is, the dawn will come." Sometimes it seems that negative events in life will never end - the black stripe does not change into a white one. And usually a person stops noticing even the slightest good events in life when he finds himself under a pile of problems. But such a proverb can encourage and inspire hope. Indeed, the night seems to be the longest before dawn - when it seems that the darkness will never recede.

What wisdom says about timeother nations?

Proverbs about the time of different peoples are also very interesting. For example, the analogue of the Russian proverb "Time heals" is the English Time cures all things - "Time heals all things (events)". And also the British like to say: Time is a great healer, - “Time is the greatest doctor.”

There are also analogues of Russian proverbs in German. For example, such is Besser spät als nie - "Better late than never." Proverbs about time can warn about unnecessary actions and, conversely, warn a person against weak will and laziness.

The ancient Greeks said: "Idleness in youth is poverty in old age." Also proverbs about free time are useful in this regard. For example, the well-known Russian proverb “Time for business, and an hour for fun”. People who constantly spend precious minutes of their lives on unnecessary conversations, deeds, experiences, will never be able to return the lost days for the right thing. Therefore, every adult can understand anything by “fun”: gossip, worries, and wasting time watching TV.