Time Quotes
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Thomas Jefferson
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.Stanislaw Lem
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
You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.Coolio, The Winne
A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.Robert Benchley
Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.George Bernard Shaw
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.Robert Half
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.Author Unknown
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.Francis Bacon
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.Dr. Joyce Brothers
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.Milton Friedman
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.Billy Madison
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.Thomas Jefferson
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.Sir Winston Churchill
Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.Michelangelo Buonarroti
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - Not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.Shimon Peres
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.Ansel Adams
Time the devourer of all things.Ovid, Metamorphoses
Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.Aaron Rose
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
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude Stein
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.Joel Barke
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.Gladys Tabe
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.Miguel de Cervantes
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.J. Michael Straczynski
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.Miguel De Cervantes