Time Quotes

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.

William Jefferson Clinton

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

Horace Greeley

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Edwin Louis Cole

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Jim Samuels

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhaue

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a - Coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

John B. Gough

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

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, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

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

Marabel Morgan

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

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

Anna Freud

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

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Sallust

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

Jim Morrison

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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

If I had the time to sit down and write a thank - You note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Alvin Toffle

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Herodotus

Each time we re - Read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

Muriel Clark

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

Unknown

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

Barbara DeAngelis

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.

Unknown

I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.

Mae West

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Euripides, Aeolus