Time Quotes
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.Horace
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.Charles Dickens
Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.George Orwell
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?Scott Adams
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.Nelson Mendela
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid.Virgil
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.Edward P. Tryon
100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100, 000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.Lazarus Long
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.Anatole Broyard
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.Amy Vanderbilt
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...Charles Dickens
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.James Russell Lowell
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.Author Unknown
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price.Frederick Winslow Taylo
One dies only once, and then for such a long time!Moli? re, Le D? pit Amoureux (1656)
Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.Alain
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.Francis Bacon
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.George William Curtis
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.Mary Montagu
It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.John Blasik
What a time! What a civilization!Cicero
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.Richard Bach
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.National Lampoon, "Deteriorata".
The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.Eudora Welty
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.Henry David Thoreau
All human power is a compound of time and patience.Honore de Balzac
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.Robert Half
