Time Quotes

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney Harris

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Douglas Noel Adams

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

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F Scott

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

Leonard Bernstein

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

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

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Conan Doyle

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

If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be.

Councilman John Bowman commenting on the high crime in Washington

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.

John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)

All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Sir Winston Churchill

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

Casey Stengel

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

Every time we say, Let there be! in any form, something happens.

Stella Terrill Mann

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

Jim Morrison

Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

Chitto Harjo

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it.

Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The holy passion of Friendship is 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

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

Alan Valentine