Time Quotes

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast - Table, 1858

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened.

Mark Twain

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs... and jerk the heck out of you.

Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

What you give you get, ten times over.

Yoruba Prove

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.

William Hazlitt

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

Sometimes there are no answers.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

John Milton

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

Laurence J. Pete

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Walt Kelly

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Fred Allen

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

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

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Quentin Crisp

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

Honore de Balzac

Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.

Erich Fromm

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

Chilo

Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

Seneca