Time Quotes

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

Mark Twain

A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001

Time heals what reason cannot.

Seneca

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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".

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

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

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

Paul Williams, Das Energi

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

Dogen Zenji

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

Charles Bukowski

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Jacob Bigelow

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid.

Virgil

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

Henry David Thoreau

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...

Proverbs 2416a Bible

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Pete

Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

George Orwell

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Conan Doyle

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.

John Stuart Mill

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barke

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

Robert Byrne

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.

Chinese Prove

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

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

Aristotle

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Sir Francis Bacon

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus