Time Quotes

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

Next time I will... From now on I will... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow

Hugh Prathe

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.

Charles E. Jefferson

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, 1966

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Prove

Long stormy spring - Time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

Thomas Carlyle

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

Johannes Meister Eckhart

Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

Richard I. Winword

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Horace Greeley

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.

David Browe

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Elizabeth II

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank H. Crane

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Elie Wiesel

We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

Jeff Warne

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

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...

G. K. Chesterton

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

W. H. Auden

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred De Musset

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Unknown

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.

Alastair Reid

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau