Time Quotes

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

The time to reapir the roof is when the sun is shining.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

David Bowie

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the TV.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Chinese Prove

Always have some project under way... an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time.

Dr. Lillian Troll

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Thomas Troward

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Vincent McNa

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.

John Stuart Mill

Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Pete

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?

Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We? re looking for something, though we? re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2003

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

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

Cynthia Nelms

To be a housewife is... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

Phyllis Mcginley

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

Ida Scott Taylor.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.

Thomas Alva Edison

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.

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

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...

Proverbs 2416a Bible

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Elizabeth II