Time Quotes

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

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

Francois Mitterand

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Jacob Bigelow

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Horace Greeley

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson, cartoonist

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Chazal

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

W. H. Auden

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

Frederick W. Taylo

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

I think and think for months and years. Ninety - Nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein, Sc

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred - And - First blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob A. Riis

If you want to make good use of your time, you? ve got to know what? s most important and then give it all you? ve got.

Lee Iacocca

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

Joe Moore

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Edward De Bono

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

George Gordon Byron

Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw Lec

Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten

Revolution is not a onetime event.

Audre Lorde

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05

Gather ye rose - Buds while ye may, Old Time is still a - Flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

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

Jean Paul Richte

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5

Time eases all things.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Time heals what reason cannot.

Seneca

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002