Time Quotes

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Fred Allen

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

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 man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Sandra

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003

Punctuality is the thief of time.

Oscar Wilde

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Hippocrates

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Guy

Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

M. Grundle

Sometimes I think the so - Called experts actually ARE experts.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Author Unknown

What a time! What a civilization!

Cicero

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Benjamin Disraeli

There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.

H. L. Mencken

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.

Real Live Preache

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Gerald W. Johnson

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

I? ll fight when needed, revel when there? s an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes? but I won? t let anyone use me against my will.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quotes came from Eragon.

Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

CaddyShack

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel.

Jerry Coleman

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche