Time Quotes

I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Golo Mann

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

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.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

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

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

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

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)

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

All great achievements require time.

David Joseph Schwartz

Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Prove

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - The cemetery.

Author Unknown

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

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Author Unknown

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Elie Wiesel

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw