Time Quotes

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it? s magical.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pablo Picasso

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.

Erich Fromm

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

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

Summertime, and the living is easy.

George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...

Proverbs 2416a Bible

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nelson Mendela

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese prove

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Unknown

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

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Isaac Watts

What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.

Francois Arouet

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

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Marquis de Sade

Sometimes... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Thomas Paine

This is no time to make new enemies.

Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

William H. Borah

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Saint Francis of Assisi

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