Time Quotes

Punctuality is the thief of time.

Oscar Wilde

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

John Peter Zenge

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

Milton Friedman

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

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

Wernher von Braun

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus

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

Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657)

Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.

Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Benjamin Disraeli

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.

Aristotle

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

Joe Moore

Time is the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

Mother Theresa

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Niels Henrik David Boh

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

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

Robert Orben

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

Henry David Thoreau

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

Book of Common Praye

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?

Richard Bach, One