Time Quotes

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliott

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Nigerian Prove

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

Alexandre Dumas

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - Not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Shimon Peres

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles De Gaulle

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

Anatole France

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow its magical.

Pamela Ribon

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Vincent Van Gogh

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Prove

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)

Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

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

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.

Franklin P. Jones

Summertime, and the living is easy.

George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Woody Allen

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Miss Piggy