Time Quotes

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Kahlil Gibran

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.

Humphrey Davy

The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good - - The atavism of a more ancient ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Tallulah Bankhead

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

Anonymous

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Douglas Noel Adams

Time the devourer of all things.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Edward De Bono

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

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

The future comes one day at a time.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Always have some project under way... an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time.

Dr. Lillian Troll

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three - And - Twentieth yea.

John Milton

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Lou Reed

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Vincent McNa

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected.

Pliny the Elde

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

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

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S. Truman

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

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Horace Greeley

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".

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