Time Quotes

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

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

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pablo Picasso

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

French Prove

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Laurence J. Pete

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Rita Rudne

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

Duncan Maxwell Anderson

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

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

Ernest Leroy Boye

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.

Coolio, The Winne

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Jonathan Swift

Much speech is one thing, well - Timed speech is another.

Sophocles

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Brenda Ueland

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Theresa

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

John Lennon

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

Norman Ford

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Isak Dinesen

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

W. N. Taylo

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe