Time Quotes

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence George Durrell

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert, Dune

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Jonathan Swift

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

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

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

I thank my God everytime I remember you.

Philippians 13 NIV Bible

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

Henry David Thoreau

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

Dogen Zenji

Time eases all things.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

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

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.

Thomas Alva Edison

If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.

Author Unknown

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

The time to reapir the roof is when the sun is shining.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

Nicolas Boileau

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edward De Bono

Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Willem de Kooning

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Schweitze

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility