Time Quotes
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.Steward Alsop
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.Chinese Prove
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.John Wesley
Fall down seven times, get up eight.Japanese Prove
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.- Dante Alighieri
I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657)
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.Charles Monroe Schultz
The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.Seneca
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard E. Byrd
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.Harry S Truman
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, Man and Superman, 1903
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.Robin Williams
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.Eleanor Marx
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
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.Max Frisch
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as nutty methods. Or you can put well - Researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.Robert Charles Benchley
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.Jef Raskin
J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.Spider - Man
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.George Gordon Byron
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.George Herbert
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.H. A. Overstreet
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
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.Bertrand Russell
