Time Quotes

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Sallust

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

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

Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.

Herbert Clark Hoove

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

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

Andrew Schneide

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Beryl Pfize

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Al Bernstein

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

Author Unknown

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

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

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Walt West

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

John Barrymore

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Robin Williams

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 1717 Bible

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

John McEnroe

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be... and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.

Ecclesiates 1922 Bible

If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Daniel Webste

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

Author Unknown

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid.

Virgil

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.

Real Live Preache

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Harold Taylo

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter - And to write it in the books of law.

Lyndon B. Johnson