Time Quotes

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Sir Francis Bacon

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Aaron Copland

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - Not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Shimon Peres

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

Henry David Thoreau

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

J. P. McEvoy

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, 1969

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitze

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

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

John H. Patterson

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Mortimer Adle

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Stella Terrill Mann

Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Patty Labelle

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

Robert Burns

Each time we re - Read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

Muriel Clark

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

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

Gustave Flaubert

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

Nancy Asto

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes there are no answers.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

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

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Charles Grodin