Time Quotes

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Lisa Althe

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

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

H. A. Overstreet

A Multitasking Timex Sinclai.

Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X - Windows

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Charles Monroe Schultz

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw Lec

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Aeschylus

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

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

Much speech is one thing, well - Timed speech is another.

Sophocles

Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

John Ruskin

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

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

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

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

When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.

David Browe

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

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".

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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".

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boye

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde