Time Quotes

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook, Shadow Games

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney Harris

Remember that time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Henry Holt

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Sandra

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

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

Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin".

Time heals what reason cannot.

Seneca

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

H. L. Mencken

Once upon a time - - Of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve - - Old Scrooge sat busy in his counting - House.

Charles Dickens

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossne

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

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

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Hippocrates

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

Cynthia Nelms

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.

A. M. Rosenthal

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

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well - Timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino

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

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.

Scott Adams

Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be.

Vinny Nayak

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski