Time Quotes

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

James Goldsmith

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Prove

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.

Lester R Bittel

Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

Jim Morrison

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.

There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.

H. L. Mencken

Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Herodotus

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Patty Labelle

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Herman Melville

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

Chinese Prove

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Theresa

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthuer Schopenhaue

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

Dax Ward

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.

Thomas Alva Edison

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Prove

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

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

Groucho Marx

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Much speech is one thing, well - Timed speech is another.

Sophocles

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

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.

Scott Adams

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

O. A. Battista

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway