Time Quotes
Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude Stein
The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.Patty Labelle
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.Rainer Maria Rilke
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03
If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.Katharine Butler Hathaway
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he nowTom Stoppard
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.George Bernard Shaw
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
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?Carl L. Becke
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.James Taylo
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.From the last episode of "Cheers".
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.Hal Borland
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.Jay Leno
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
Time discovers truth.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.John Peter Zenge
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.Gloria Swanson
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.Leo C. Rosten
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.Unknown
When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.Diogenes the Cynic
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.Publilius Syrus
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.Mark Twain
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.Unknown
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.Natalie Clifford Barney
