Time Quotes

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac

Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

To save time is to lengthen life.

Author Unknown

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Marian Wright Edelman

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Thomas Fulle

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.

B. J. Gupta

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

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

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

How can a guy hit and think at the same time.

Lawrence Peter Berra

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Gladys Tabe

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Ovid

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

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".

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simone Weil

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - It was gone.

Author Unknown

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Sir Francis Bacon

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

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

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Henry Holt

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

Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Carl Sagan