Time Quotes

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Mark Twain

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

Leo Kennedy

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

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, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947

Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - But sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Willem de Kooning

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

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Abigail Van Buren

Gather ye rose - Buds while ye may, Old Time is still a - Flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

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

P. G. Wodehouse

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug - Of - war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Pete Holiday

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

George Bernard Shaw

Time is the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

Duncan Maxwell Anderson

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

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

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert, Dune

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Thomas Fulle

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Gerald W. Johnson

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

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

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

W. N. Taylo