Time Quotes
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.William Arthur Ward
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.Miguel de Cervantes
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.James Barrie
Once upon a time - - Of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve - - Old Scrooge sat busy in his counting - House.Charles Dickens
Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.Lord Chesterfield
How frequently the last time comes and we do not know.John Walte
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.Charles Caleb Colton
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.William Hamilton
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast - Table, 1858
The best way to fill time is to waste it.Marguerite Duras
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.Kareem Abdul - Jaba
Now is the time for all good men to come to.Walt Kelly
Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)
To save time is to lengthen life.Author Unknown
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.Frances Watkins Harpe
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.Paul Valery
One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.Henry Adams
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.Henry Van Dyke
In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.Abigail Van Buren
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.Author Unknown
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885
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.George Chapman
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.Sydney Harris
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.Douglas Adams
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.Henry David Thoreau
If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.Lorne Bloch
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.Heinrich Heine
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.Louise Erdrich
Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
