Time Quotes

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Robert Charles Benchley

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

French Prove

succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.

Teddy Carroll

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Thomas Paine

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

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, Little Gidding

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.

Stella Terrill Mann

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

James Barrie

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthuer Schopenhaue

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

Time is but the stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

If I had the time to sit down and write a thank - You note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

W. N. Taylo

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is Chris - In - The - Morning with the weather and time - - 24 hours later than it was yesterday and cold.

Andrew Schneide

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Brenda Ueland

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

It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.

William Hamilton

Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.

Angel Blessing

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

Leo C. Rosten

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.

Chinese Prove

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

Jeanne Moreau