Time Quotes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.Johann von Schille
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a - Coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.John B. Gough
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.Charles Baudelaire
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.Amy Vanderbilt
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.Rainer Maria Rilke
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.Dax Ward
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
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., December 11, 1964
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.Marquis de Sade
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.Marabel Morgan
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.Abraham Lincoln
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.Robin Williams
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.Edgar Watson Howe
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.George Herbert
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.Arthur Koestle
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.Robert Byrne
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
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.John Locke
The time to reapir the roof is when the sun is shining.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.Friedrich Nietzsche
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.Miguel de Cervantes
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.Charles Buxton
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.Abraham Lincoln
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.Jeff Warne
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
False enchantment can last a lifetime.W. H. Auden
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol
Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.Victor Hugo
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.Herbert Hoove
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.Leo Tolstoy
