Time Quotes

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be... and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.

Ecclesiates 1922 Bible

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

John Lennon

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Charles Monroe Schultz

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Henry Holt

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day!

Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.

Coolio, The Winne

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

Mohammed Ali

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.

Leo Buscaglia

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

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

Thomas Fulle

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

Frederick W. Taylo

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. promoting US exports, as quoted in Time.

Phil Gramm

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Patty Labelle

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

George Bernard Shaw

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Japanese Prove

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 the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The 6s, of course, was the worst time in the world to try to bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Nancy Davis Reagan

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

Henry Steele Commage

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Frances Watkins Harpe

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells