Time Quotes

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Mortimer Adle

The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.

Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955

When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the TV.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992

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

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Alexandre Dumas

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

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

James Barrie

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

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warne

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

Iggy Pop

If I had the time to sit down and write a thank - You note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

Charlotte P Gilman

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

John Ruskin

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

E. F. Benson

When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.

David Browe

Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

Leo Tolstoy

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

George Santayana

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

Paul Williams, Das Energi