Time Quotes

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a - Flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Diogenes the Cynic

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

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.

William Hazlitt

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann von Goethe

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. On assassination of President John F Kennedy.

Earl Warren

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)

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

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

Edward P. Tryon

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

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

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

Aristotle, Physics

I? ll fight when needed, revel when there? s an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes? but I won? t let anyone use me against my will.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quotes came from Eragon.

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

George Dennison Prentice

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Napoleon I

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.

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

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Karl Kraus

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

Milton Friedman

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Fulton John Sheen

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.

Chinese Prove

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your abilty to fly. At times stop and rest, but quickly get back up before your dreams pass you by.

Eric Pio