Time Quotes

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides

When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.

Bible, Ecclesaistes 7: 14

If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.

Unknown

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug - Of - war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Pete Holiday

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Unknown

The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. promoting US exports, as quoted in Time.

Phil Gramm

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Euripides, Aeolus

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Romare Beardon

I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.

Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

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

If you want to make good use of your time, you? ve got to know what? s most important and then give it all you? ve got.

Lee Iacocca

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

The 6s, of course, was the worst time in the world to try to bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Nancy Davis Reagan

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

O. A. Battista

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Mortimer Adle

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.

George Dennison Prentice

Time is but the stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5