Time Quotes

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

P. G. Wodehouse

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

C. C. Colton

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Author Unknown

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323

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

Franklin P. Jones

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast - Table, 1858

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

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

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

All great achievements require time.

David Joseph Schwartz

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Robert Orben

Take life one basket at a time.

Jackie Wilson

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

Honore de Balzac

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Dr. Robert Schulle

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.

Unknown

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Charles Manson