Time Quotes

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Amanda Heggs

I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Robert Benchley

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.

Henry Adams

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.

Richard M. Nixon

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Herodotus

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

George Herbert

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

John Dryden

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simone Weil

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God".

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com weblog, 10 - 09 - 04

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - The cemetery.

Author Unknown

The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Loren Eiseley

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Cicero

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - - But a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

Charles E. Wilson

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. On assassination of President John F Kennedy.

Earl Warren

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Niels Henrik David Boh

Summertime, and the living is easy.

George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess

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

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

A Multitasking Timex Sinclai.

Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X - Windows

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Richard Milhous Nixon

If you want to make good use of your time, you? ve got to know what? s most important and then give it all you? ve got.

Lee Iacocca

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf