Time Quotes
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.Leo Kennedy
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a - Coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.John B. Gough
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.Charles Dudley Warne
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.Saki, "The Square Egg", 1924
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.Vincent McNa
Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.Allphonse de Lamartine
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the TV.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.Henry David Thoreau
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.Kareem Abdul - Jaba
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.Emily Dickinson
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.Henry David Thoreau
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.Jay Leno
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.Stephen King
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.Miguel de Cervantes
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323
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
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
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw Lec
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.Simeon Strunsky
The best way to fill time is to waste it.Marguerite Duras
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.Lawrence George Durrell
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
You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your abilty to fly. At times stop and rest, but quickly get back up before your dreams pass you by.Eric Pio
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.Unknown
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.Marquis de Sade
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.Lester Bowles Pearson
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.Alfred Montapert
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.John Lithgow
