Time Quotes

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

Virgil

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Prove

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Robert Orben

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Time cancels young pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

Molly Wiest

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Burk Hudson

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Jim Samuels

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.

Bill Watterson

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

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time.

Old School

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

il faut laisser du temps au temps you have to give time time - Approximate translation.

Francois Mitterand

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S. Truman

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.

Michelangelo, Poem Fragment

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann von Goethe

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

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

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Herman Melville

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred De Musset

The 6s, of course, was the worst time in the world to try to bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Nancy Davis Reagan

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour".

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sidney J. Harris