Time Quotes

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.

Mae West

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

Buddha

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

George Gordon Byron

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

O. A. Battista

He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.

Nigerian Prove

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin P. Adams

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Katharine Hepburn

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

This is no time to make new enemies.

Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Sir Winston Churchill

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Marguerite Duras

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Greek Prove

It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?

Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Al Bernstein

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

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

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

Cynthia Nelms

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nelson Mendela

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Andy Warhol

This is Chris - In - The - Morning with the weather and time - - 24 hours later than it was yesterday and cold.

Andrew Schneide

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts