Time Quotes

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Virgil

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel.

Jerry Coleman

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

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

George Bernard Shaw

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

Anonymous

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.

Teddy Carroll

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Robert Darwin

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

George Bernard Shaw

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Jonathan Swift

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante Alighieri

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well - Timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.

Saint Francis of Assisi

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

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Nigerian Prove

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.

John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy".

All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

Ovid

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Brenda Ueland

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

Jimmy Cannon

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

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

Henry Ford

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

H. L. Mencken

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

Selwyn Champion