Time Quotes

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Willem de Kooning

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

Muriel Spark

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

Alan Valentine

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

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.

Richard M. Devos

Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

Mark Twain

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - The one doing the important job - Unnoticed.

David K. Shiple

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

M. Grundle

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

Robin Williams

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Lou Reed

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.

Saying Folk

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Vincent McNa

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

Robert Benchley

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hunter S. Thompson

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

Larry Niven

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. promoting US exports, as quoted in Time.

Phil Gramm

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Anonymous

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Ramble

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Charles Monroe Schultz