Time Quotes

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

Honore de Balzac

Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. While we talk, hostile time flies away.

Horace

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Desiderius Erasmus

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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".

Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Unknown

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

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin".

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Proverbs 1717 Bible

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edward De Bono

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andr Gide

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Saint Francis of Assisi

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

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

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.

Erich Fromm

Much speech is one thing, well - Timed speech is another.

Sophocles

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Benjamin Disraeli

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

Iggy Pop

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Revolution is not a onetime event.

Audre Lorde

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Native American Prove

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.

Bertrand Russell

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.

Brian Sutton - Smith