Time Quotes

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante Alighieri

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

Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.

Hubert Humphrey

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

Jim Morrison

Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Edmund Burke

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a - Flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.

Erich Fromm

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

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

Mark Twain

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Guy Davenport

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H. L. Mencken

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

Junius

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

Paul Williams, Das Energi

At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be.

Vinny Nayak

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook, Shadow Games

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

Boris Becke

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Woody Allen

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Henry Louis Mencken

Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle