Time Quotes
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.Euripides
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.J. Michael Straczynski
Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.Mark Twain
If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
In time we hate that which we often fear.William Shakespeare
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
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.Herbert Hoove
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.Jack Kerouac, On the Road
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.English Prove
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.Henry David Thoreau
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected.Pliny the Elde
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.Golo Mann
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.Miles Davis
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.Will Rogers
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.Charles Caleb Colton
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - This is an old rule.The Dhammapada
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.Terry Pratchett
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.Bruce Barton
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.Burk Hudson
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.Jay Leno
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.Unknown
Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.Norman Ford
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.John Stuart Mill
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.W. Somerset Maugham
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.Stanislaw Lem
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.Clive Staples Lewis
A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.Robert Benchley
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.Miguel de Cervantes
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.Will Rogers
