Time Quotes
When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
There is no time like the pleasant.George Bergman
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.C. C. Colton
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.Oliver Wendell Holmes
In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.Abigail Van Buren
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.Eric Hoffe
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.John Lennon
May you always live in interesting times.Chinese Curse
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.Henry David Thoreau
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.Benjamin Disraeli
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.Augusta Jane Evans
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Martin Luther King Jr.
He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.Nigerian Prove
Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.Margaret Hilda Thatche
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - Nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...John Simon
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, "Memory", 1996
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Jane Harrison
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.Vincent Van Gogh
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.John Dean
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.Mark Twain
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
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.Chinese Prove
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.Donna Summe
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.Edward P. Tryon
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
