Time Quotes
Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.Charles Dickens, Great expectations
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.Scottish Prove
The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.Pablo Picasso
When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.Diogenes the Cynic
Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.Samuel Beckett
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.Ludwig van Beethoven
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.Travis Walton
May you always live in interesting times.Chinese Curse
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".
Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.George Orwell
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - This is an old rule.The Dhammapada
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.Thomas Jefferson
Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.Unknown
Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. promoting US exports, as quoted in Time.Phil Gramm
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.Vince Lombardi
Once upon a time - - Of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve - - Old Scrooge sat busy in his counting - House.Charles Dickens
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.Louise Erdrich
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.George Gordon Byron
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.Katharine Hepburn
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.Benjamin Franklin
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.James Goldsmith
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
