Time Quotes

If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.

Author Unknown

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.

Lewis Grizzard

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

Mark Twain

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

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".

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Mortimer Adle

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sigmund Freud

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

William Gladstone

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

A. E. Houseman

There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it.

Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Charles Caleb Colton

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andr Gide

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

Marabel Morgan

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

Beaumarchis

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warne

Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.

St. Francis of Assissi

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?

E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".

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

Niels Henrik David Boh

Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hoover Santmye

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

Baltasar Gracian

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.

Lester Bowles Pearson

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Elizabeth II

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

T. S. Eliot

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King J

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".