Time Quotes

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

Mark Twain

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Abigail Van Buren

You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your abilty to fly. At times stop and rest, but quickly get back up before your dreams pass you by.

Eric Pio

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Lisa Grossman

The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank H. Crane

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

Buddha

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

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Benjamin Disraeli

I used to wake up at 4 A. M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

James Thurbe

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Helen Merrell Lynd

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

Nancy Asto

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

So little time, so little to do.

Oscar Levant

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

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

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

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.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Alighieri Dante

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

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.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

Time is the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes

It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it.

Robert Collie

Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Unknown

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe