Time Quotes

Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.

Saint Francis of Assisi

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

Albert Einstein

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Seneca

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S. Truman

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson, cartoonist

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

If I had the time to sit down and write a thank - You note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

Richard Willard Armou

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.

Nigerian Prove

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well - Timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.

Happy Gilmore

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Mark Twain

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

Time cancels young pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 1717 Bible

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Al Rogers

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Jim Samuels

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe