Time Quotes

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

There is no time like the pleasant.

George Bergman

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

Baltasar Gracian

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkne

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.

David Browe

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhaue

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

Peter Quennell

Time the devourer of all things.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Cato the Elde

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Douglas Noel Adams

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

Mother Theresa

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

Milton Friedman

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Native American Prove

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

George Sanders

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

Punctuality is the thief of time.

Oscar Wilde

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Thich Nhat Hanh

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Robert Benchley

Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

Richard Willard Armou

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

So little time, so little to do.

Oscar Levant

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley