Time Quotes

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it? s magical.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

Iggy Pop

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthuer Schopenhaue

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

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Miguel de Cervantes

I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened.

Mark Twain

If I had the time to sit down and write a thank - You note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.

Rene Descartes

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

Henry David Thoreau

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Louis - Hector Berlioz

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

From the last episode of "Cheers".

In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

E. F. Benson

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

Oliver Bevan

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Benjamin McLane Spock

Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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

Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

Terry Lynn Taylo

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Quentin Crisp