Time Quotes
Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.Richard I. Winword
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.Kahlil Gibran
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.Katharine Hepburn
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.Unknown
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.Unknown
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...Proverbs 2416a Bible
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
I wasted time, now time doth waste me.William Shakespeare, Richard II
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.D. March
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.Swordfish
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.George W. Bush
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.Philip K. Dick, Valis
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.Larry Niven
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
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.Virginia Woolf
The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience
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
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.Henry David Thoreau
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse.Chilo
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.Hippocrates, Precepts
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.Henry Ford
What you give you get, ten times over.Yoruba Prove
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.Bob Marley
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.Miss Piggy
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
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
