Time Quotes

Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.

American Greetings Card

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Brenda Ueland

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Clarence Day

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.

Unknown

Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Lucille Ball

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

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in 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 Fitzgerald

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

Carl L. Becke

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

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Eddie Canto

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Elizabeth II

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Unknown

Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.

The Divine Pymande

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sigmund Freud

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.

Saying Folk

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.

T. S. Eliot

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

George Sanders

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm

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

Cynthia Nelms

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

Author Unknown

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

Miguel de Cervantes

The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.

Dan Kelly

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Native American Prove