Time Quotes

I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.

Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm

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

Gustave Flaubert

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.

Hippocrates

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

Boris Becke

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

George Herbert

If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Mark Twain

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

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

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

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Every time we say, Let there be! in any form, something happens.

Stella Terrill Mann

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

Nelson Mandela

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even a stopped clock is right two times a day.

Marie von Ebner - Eschenbach

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

Aristotle

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoove

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

Peter Quennell

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

Euripides

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boye

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Moore

If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia