Time Quotes

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Virgil

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Hal Borland

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

Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.

St. Francis of Assissi

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Horace

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Harold Taylo

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

William H. Borah

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

The holy passion of Friendship is of 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

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

Take life one basket at a time.

Jackie Wilson

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.

Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can? t get away this time!!!

General Douglas McArthu

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle, Physics

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

Benjamin Franklin

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

Time is but a stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.

Henry Van Dyke

Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Sallust

Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain