Time Quotes

Henry van dyke - time is: too slow for those who wait, too swift...
Travis walton - the truth, of course, is that a billion...
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.
Maitri Upanishads
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected.
Pliny the Elde
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
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
Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.
Cynthia Nelms
John f. kennedy - the time to repair the roof is when the sun is...
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Publilius Syrus
When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
English Prove
Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.
Stella Terrill Mann
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.
Dean Gooderham Acheson
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
Johannes Meister Eckhart
Always have some project under way... an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time.
Dr. Lillian Troll
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.
Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Seneca
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
Hippocrates
To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.
John Wesley
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
Japanese Prove
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
W. Somerset Maugham
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.
Woody Allen
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Dame Rose Macaulay
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.
Bertrand Russell
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
Much speech is one thing, well - Timed speech is another.
Sophocles
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Mark Twain
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
Chinese Prove
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
Honore de Balzac
This is no time to make new enemies.
Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
Milton Friedman
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.
Simeon Strunsky
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland