Time Quotes

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three - And - Twentieth yea.

John Milton

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.

Miguel de Cervantes

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Marquis de Sade

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

Henry David Thoreau

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Ramble

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.

George Chapman

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.

Franklin P. Jones

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. promoting US exports, as quoted in Time.

Phil Gramm

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Abigail Van Buren

Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.

Author Unknown

We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Richard Milhous Nixon

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simone Weil

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price.

Frederick Winslow Taylo

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Michel de Montaigne

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3