Time Quotes

Time gives good advice.

Maltese Prove

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

Alexandre Dumas

What is life It is the 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

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all - wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05

If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Leon Trotsky

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

John Wanamake

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith

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

Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5

In an information world where we all have someday to say it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2004

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

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

Margaret Mead

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nelson Mendela

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boye

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

Wernher von Braun

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

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

George Orwell

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Al Bernstein

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

Peter de Jage

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Cato the Elde

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

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Alfred E. Wiggam

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

John H. Patterson

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Prove

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God".

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

Henry David Thoreau