Time Quotes
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
Gather ye rose - Buds while ye may, Old Time is still a - Flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.Mark Twain
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.Heinrich Heine
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
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.William Wordsworth
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.Aristotle
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.Cato the Elde
The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer.Sheila M. Kelly
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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
EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We? re looking for something, though we? re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2003
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.Thich Nhat Hanh
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.William Gladstone
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.Henry Louis Mencken
An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.John H. Patterson
Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.Franklin Roosevelt
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.Alfred E. Wiggam
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid.Virgil
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
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard E. Byrd
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one.Selwyn Champion
How can a guy hit and think at the same time.Lawrence Peter Berra
Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.Robert J. McKain
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.E. B. White
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.Margaret Mead
Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.Jim Morrison
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.Alain
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.Alfred De Musset
Time the devourer of all things.Ovid, Metamorphoses