Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1816 |
| AUTHOR: | John Randolph (1773–1833) |
| QUOTATION: | Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Randolph was a member of Congress 1799–1813, 1815–1817, and 1819–1829. |
| SUBJECTS: | Time |