Time Quotes
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
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.Johann von Schille
All the best stories are but one story in reality - - The story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.A. C. Benson
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.Henry David Thoreau
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.Author Unknown
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.Albert Schweitze
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.Peter De Vries
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.Andr Gide
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.Cicero
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all - wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, 1969
I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.James Thurbe
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.Leonard Bernstein
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
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.Natalie Clifford Barney
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.Wilson Mizne
Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.William Arthur Ward
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - - And know the place for the first time.T. S Eliot
Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time.Old School
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.Cynthia Nelms
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.Henry Steele Commage
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.Charles Caleb Colton
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.
