Time Quotes

A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.

Steward Alsop

I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.

Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

Cynthia Nelms

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Lee Segall

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

All the best stories are but one story in reality - - The story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Louis - Hector Berlioz

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".

A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Author Unknown

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.

Richard M. Devos

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.

Lester Bowles Pearson

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Charles Grodin

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Unknown

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

Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.

American Greetings Card

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boye

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Aeschylus

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

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

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.

Hubert Humphrey

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

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkne