Time Quotes

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

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

W. Somerset Maugham

Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

William Pickens

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Alfred A. Montapert

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

Peter De Vries

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.

Aristotle

It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.

John Blasik

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A Multitasking Timex Sinclai.

Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X - Windows

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Mortimer Adle

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

P. G. Wodehouse

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Sir Francis Bacon

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Cato the Elde

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.

Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!

Once upon a time - - Of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve - - Old Scrooge sat busy in his counting - House.

Charles Dickens

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Virgil

Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

Everybody likes to go their own way - - To choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html

Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hoover Santmye

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

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.

Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005