Time Quotes

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Benjamin Disraeli

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

Casey Stengel

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

George Bernard Shaw

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Alfred A. Montapert

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

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

William Arthur Ward

One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Thomas Carlyle

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

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

Norman Ford

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles, 1966

Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Arthur Koestle

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

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

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.

Dan Kelly

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H. L. Mencken

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

C. C. Colton

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

Frederick W. Taylo

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Gene Roddenberry