Time Quotes
succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.Teddy Carroll
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.Larry Niven
Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.Unknown
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.Andrew Carnegie
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.Blaise Pascal
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.Thich Nhat Hanh
It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure.Lee Segall
How can a guy hit and think at the same time.Lawrence Peter Berra
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.Mohammed Ali
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.Robertson Davies
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.Alvin Toffle
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.Paul Valery
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.John Locke
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?Scott Adams
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.Benjamin Franklin
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.Sir Walter Scott
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.Robert Byrne
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.Polish Prove
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Conan Doyle
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.W. H. Auden
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.Victor Hugo
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.Christopher Darlington Morley
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.Chitto Harjo
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.Publilius Syrus
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.William Gladstone
