Time Quotes

Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Prove

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Bruce Barton

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 14 - 03

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?

E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Wernher von Braun

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

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.

Hippocrates

There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.

H. L. Mencken

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Mary Montagu

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Author Unknown

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

Henry Louis Mencken

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

John Milton

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Wittgenstein

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Thomas Troward

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Sydney Harris

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

John Ruskin

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Alexandre Dumas

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Unknown

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the 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 lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...

Samuel Smiles

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.

T. S. Eliot

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

Oscar Wilde

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Clive Staples Lewis

I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It