Time Quotes

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Alfred Montapert
Douglas noel adams - man has always assumed that he was more...
Oprah winfrey, o magazine - every one of us gets through the tough times...
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.
Unknown
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
John Locke
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
Isaac Watts
Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
Jimmy Cannon
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Anonymous
The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.
Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Howard Aiken
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
Travis Walton
John archibald wheeler, american j. of physics, 1978, 46, 323 - time is what prevents everything from happening...
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.
Crowfoot
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
Peter Quennell
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
Japanese Prove
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
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
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
Benny Hill
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the 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 lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...
Samuel Smiles
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
Chilo
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Anatole Broyard
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
Honore de Balzac
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
Augusta Jane Evans
If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
Time eases all things.
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure.
Lee Segall
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
Gladys Tabe
I am just going outside and may be some time.
Captain Lawrence Oates, last words
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
John Peter Zenge
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
Author Unknown
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003
100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100, 000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.
Lazarus Long