Time Quotes

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

George Sanders

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.

Angel Blessing

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle, Physics

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

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

George William Curtis

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.

Unknown

Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Desiderius Erasmus

To be a housewife is... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

Phyllis Mcginley

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

One dies only once, and then for such a long time.

Moliere

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet

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

The real menace in dealing with a five - Year - Old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five - Year - Old.

Jean Ke

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

Time heals what reason cannot.

Seneca

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can? t get away this time!!!

General Douglas McArthu

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

Each time we re - Read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

Muriel Clark

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

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I