Time Quotes
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Dianetics 55
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.David Bowie
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.Aldous Huxley
Time is but the stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100, 000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.Lazarus Long
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.Laurence J. Pete
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.Henry Steele Commage
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.Mary Anne Radmache
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast - Table, 1858
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.Thomas Mann
There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.Real Live Preache
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.Anatole France
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.Charles Dickens
Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.Martin Fraquhar Tuppe
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
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
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.Frances Burnett
Each time we re - Read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.Muriel Clark
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Eric Hoffe
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.Robert A. Heinlein
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.Donald J. Adams
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
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
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.Milton Friedman
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.James Thurbe
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.Eric Hoffe
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.Bill Watterson
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
