Time Quotes

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

Leo C. Rosten

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time.

Old School

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

P. G. Wodehouse

The future comes one day at a time.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com weblog, 10 - 09 - 04

Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

Henry David Thoreau

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

Woody Allen

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Thomas Paine

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Herodotus

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Henry Louis Mencken

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H. L. Mencken

All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hoover Santmye

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian

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

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Augusta Jane Evans

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Francis Kennedy

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Conan Doyle

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.

Richard M. Devos

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

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

John Dryden

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Lisa Grossman

It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

Aristotle

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Harold Taylo

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Author Unknown

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