Time Quotes

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

Beaumarchis

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.

Albert Camus

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

French Prove

All great achievements require time.

David Joseph Schwartz

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne

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

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.

A. M. Rosenthal

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Socrates, Apology, (Plato)

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sigmund Freud

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

Anatole France

One dies only once, and then for such a long time!

Moli? re, Le D? pit Amoureux (1656)

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

This is Chris - In - The - Morning with the weather and time - - 24 hours later than it was yesterday and cold.

Andrew Schneide

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Unknown

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Fred Allen

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

William H. Borah

Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Mortimer Adle

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Hippocrates, Precepts

What you give you get, ten times over.

Yoruba Prove

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.

T. S. Eliot

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol