Time Quotes

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.
B. J. Gupta
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Tobias G. Smollett
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Susan Taylo
Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.
Richard I. Winword
Plato, dialogues, theatetus - you are young, my son, and, as the years go by,...
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
Gerald W. Johnson
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Terry Pratchett
Time eases all things.
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.
Polish Prove
Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
Desiderius Erasmus
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
I think and think for months and years. Ninety - Nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fulle
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
Mark Yost
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
George Bernard Shaw
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Johann von Goethe
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.
Unknown
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Rita Rudne
Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.
The Divine Pymande
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adle
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
Aristotle
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
Beryl Pfize
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Swordfish
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
Gladys Tabe
The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
Joe Moore