Time Quotes

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Rita Rudne

Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)

Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX

When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.

Bible, Ecclesaistes 7: 14

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.

Carol Burnett

The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

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

John Stuart Mill

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

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Laurence J. Pete

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

I now have no time to be tired.

Wilhelm I, last words, 8 March 1888.

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

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

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Hippocrates

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

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - Nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Bob Edwards

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.

A. M. Rosenthal

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for something, though were not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preache

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

I am just going outside and may be some time.

Captain Lawrence Oates, last words

Being rich is having money being wealthy is having time.

Margaret Bonnano

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety - Nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein