Time Quotes

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

Chinese Prove

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Vincent McNa

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

Cynthia Nelms

There is no time like the pleasant.

George Bergman

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Edward De Bono

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Miguel de Cervantes

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

Johannes Meister Eckhart

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

Jimmy Cannon

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens, Great expectations

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - It was gone.

Author Unknown

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow its magical.

Pamela Ribon

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

Wilson Mizne

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last... The great battle of our time.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Gerald W. Johnson

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Victor Hugo

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

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

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

Charlotte P Gilman

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde