Time Quotes
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.Benjamin Franklin
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.Sarah Brady
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.Mortimer Adle
If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be.Councilman John Bowman commenting on the high crime in Washington
There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.Unknown
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.W. Somerset Maugham
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.Agatha Christie
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.Leo C. Rosten
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.Hunter S. Thompson
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
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.Junius
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.Muriel Spark
Time gives good advice.Maltese Prove
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.Wilson Mizne
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.Tallulah Bankhead
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.Russell Hoban
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.Robert Southey
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.Benjamin Franklin
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.French Prove
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.Miguel de Cervantes
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.Ramble
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?Karl Kraus
False enchantment can last a lifetime.W. H. Auden
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.Miguel De Cervantes
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
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
