Time Quotes

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.

Saying Folk

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Samuel Smiles

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Vincent van Gogh

One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

Ida Scott Taylor.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

Time gives good advice.

Maltese Prove

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.

Hippocrates

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boye

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Victor Hugo

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Carl Sagan

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard Byrd

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

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

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Saint Francis de Sales

Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Unknown

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Aeschylus

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H. L. Mencken

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

Seneca

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

Rita Rudne

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens, Great expectations

All the best stories are but one story in reality - - The story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.

William Hazlitt