Time Quotes
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.Bill Watterson
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.Blaise Pascal
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.Agatha Christie
You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.Lewis Grizzard
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.Harriet
A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.Robert Charles Benchley
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.John Ruskin
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
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.John Locke
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.Frank Herbert, Dune
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.Og Mandino
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?Elbert Hubbard
We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot
Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.Sir Winston Churchill
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.Eddie Canto
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.Author 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
Time the devourer of all things.Ovid, Metamorphoses
Punctuality is the thief of time.Oscar Wilde
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.Proverbs 1717 Bible
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.Henry David Thoreau
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.G. K. Chesterton
The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.Quentin Crisp
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.Laurence J. Pete
