Time Quotes

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Abigail Van Buren

Time cancels young pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.

Unknown

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

Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - The one doing the important job - Unnoticed.

David K. Shiple

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Robert Half

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

Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.

Kevin R. Hutson

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Robin Williams

The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

Sometimes the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk.

Unknown

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach

In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...

John Simon

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

Benny Hill

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles, 1966

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

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

Wittgenstein

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney Harris

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Virgil

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford