Time Quotes

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Elizabeth II

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

Robert Benchley

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoove

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.

Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese prove

All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Napoleon I

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

How can a guy hit and think at the same time.

Lawrence Peter Berra

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

Anna Freud

There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.

H. L. Mencken

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoove

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Abigail Van Buren

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

Edward P. Tryon

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

Being rich is having money being wealthy is having time.

Margaret Bonnano

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Vincent van Gogh

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.

Alastair Reid

Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We? re looking for something, though we? re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2003

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it.

Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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

Bette Davis