Time Quotes

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.

Bill Watterson

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

George Iles

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as nutty methods. Or you can put well - Researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

Oscar Wilde

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

From the last episode of "Cheers".

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

Remember that lost time does not return.

Thomas a Kempis

What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

Alain

The 6s, of course, was the worst time in the world to try to bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Nancy Davis Reagan

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

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Jerry Seinfeld

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

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

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

Beaumarchis

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank H. Crane

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies

What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good - - The atavism of a more ancient ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

John Barrymore

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

Selwyn Champion

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. While we talk, hostile time flies away.

Horace

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo