Time Quotes

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
Robert Half
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark
Robert a. heinlein - a fool cannot be protected from his folly. if you...
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a - Flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
Thomas troward - our repeated failure to fully act as we would...
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
Robert J. McKain
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.
Helen Hoover Santmye
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
P. G. Wodehouse
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
Heinrich Heine
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
Stephen King
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carol Burnett
It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.
John Blasik
Author unknown - many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our...
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Dame Rose Macaulay
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw Lec
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
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
Mother Theresa
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
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid.
Virgil
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
Quentin Crisp
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.
George Dennison Prentice
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?
E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
John Dean
We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.
Brian Sutton - Smith
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Swordfish
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.
Dean Gooderham Acheson
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Eric Hoffe
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Sir Winston Churchill
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05