Time Quotes

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

National Lampoon, "Deteriorata".

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Thomas Paine

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes on the way to our dreams, We get lost and find an even better one.

Unknown

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

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

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

What a time! What a civilization!

Cicero

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Lisa Grossman

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

Honore de Balzac

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F Scott

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.

Rene Descartes

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

You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand.

Robert Louis Stephenson

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Willem de Kooning

Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain

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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

George Herbert

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Brenda Ueland

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

Paul Williams, Das Energi

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

So little time, so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey