Time Quotes

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

George Iles

Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Diogenes the Cynic

I am just going outside and may be some time.

Captain Lawrence Oates, last words

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.

William Jefferson Clinton

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pablo Picasso

All great achievements require time.

David Joseph Schwartz

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

William E. Holle

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

Unknown

Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Benjamin Disraeli

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time.

Old School

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well - Timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

Anonymous

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.

Henry Adams