Time Quotes
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
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.Jane Wyman
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.Euripides, Aeolus
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.T. S. Eliot
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.James Carroll
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.Ernest Hemingway
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
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three - And - Twentieth yea.John Milton
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.Miss Piggy
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.Woody Allen
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.Joseph Parry
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.Samuel Butle
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.Jef Raskin
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.Alexander Pope
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol
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
You may delay, but time will not.Benjamin Franklin
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he nowTom Stoppard
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs... and jerk the heck out of you.Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993
Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.Bruce Barton
Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.Mahatma Gandhi
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.H. L. Mencken
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.Ted Williams
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - The cemetery.Author Unknown
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour".
If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.Author Unknown
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.W. C. Fields
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
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.Laurence J. Pete
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
