Time Quotes

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Eudora Welty

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Abigail Van Buren

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Mark Twain

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the 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 lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...

Samuel Smiles

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Louis - Hector Berlioz

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Victor Hugo

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

Duncan Maxwell Anderson

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Cato the Elde

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.

Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005

No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Lee Segall

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook, Shadow Games

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edward De Bono

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.

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

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Alighieri Dante

Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

Lin Yutang

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport

One dies only once, and then for such a long time!

Moli? re, Le D? pit Amoureux (1656)

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach