Time Quotes
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.Hippocrates, Precepts
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.Douglas Adams
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred - And - First blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.Jacob A. Riis
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.Bill Watterson
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Everybody likes to go their own way - - To choose their own time and manner of devotion.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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
Probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.Milton Friedman
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
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
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.Brenda Ueland
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.Isaac Watts
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.A. E. Houseman
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?Carl L. Becke
Every time we say, Let there be! in any form, something happens.Stella Terrill Mann
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.Thomas Brackett Reed
One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.Henry Adams
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.Arthur Koestle
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - - But a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.Charles E. Wilson
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
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.Sir Francis Bacon
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.Thomas Alva Edison
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
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.Lynda Barry
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
Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.Author Unknown
The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.Loren Eiseley
All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.H. L. Mencken
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.Peter Quennell
