Time Quotes

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Author Unknown

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

P. G. Wodehouse

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

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

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

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

Charles Dickens

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

In an information world where we all have someday to say it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2004

We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Gaius Petronius

Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Anonymous

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim

We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

David Browe

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.

Teddy Carroll

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

Marabel Morgan

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.

Unknown

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Isak Dinesen

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Aaron Copland

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Robert Benchley

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Fulton John Sheen

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

W. H. Auden

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Rita Rudne

I now have no time to be tired.

Wilhelm I, last words, 8 March 1888.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

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

Herodotus

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape