Time Quotes

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?

E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.

Unknown

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

Next time I will... From now on I will... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow

Hugh Prathe

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Charles Monroe Schultz

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Wernher von Braun

All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - But sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese prove

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Douglas Noel Adams

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Andy Warhol

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

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

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.

Brian Sutton - Smith

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Willem de Kooning

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Prove

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.

The Divine Pymande

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - Not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Shimon Peres

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Pete

I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657)

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman