Time Quotes

Gaius petronius - we trained very hard, but it seemed that every...
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz
General douglas mcarthu - the enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind...
American greetings card - sometimes the only sense we can make out of life...
Time is but the stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a - Flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
Desiderius Erasmus
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard E. Byrd
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Elizabeth II
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthuer Schopenhaue
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.
Richard M. Nixon
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides, Aeolus
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.
D. March
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
Pliny the Elder, Natural History
If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?
Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
Time is the image of eternity.
Laertius Diogenes
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.
Samuel Smiles
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
Jane E. Brody
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Denis Watley
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.
Jeanne Moreau
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy".
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
Author Unknown
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffe
What a time! What a civilization!
Cicero
Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
Robert Burns
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.
Romare Beardon
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
Unknown
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.
Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert Benchley
Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.
Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917