Time Quotes

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
William Cobbett
Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.
Unknown
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three - And - Twentieth yea.
John Milton
Glen cook, shadow games - i guess each of us, at some time, finds one...
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Alfred de musset - each memorable verse of a true poet has two or...
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.
Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca
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
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Henry David Thoreau
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
O. A. Battista
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
Donald G. Smith
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
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
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
All great achievements require time.
David Joseph Schwartz
Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein
Jacob riis - when nothing seems to help, i go and look at a...
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
War is the biggest ego trip of all time.
Molly Wiest
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
Robert Half
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
True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
Alicia Barnhart
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected.
Pliny the Elde
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.
Unknown
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.
William Jefferson Clinton
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.
Polish Prove
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour".
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
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.
Lillian
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.
Abraham Lincoln
It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
Virginia
I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
Rebecca West