Time Quotes

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

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a - Flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - The one doing the important job - Unnoticed.

David K. Shiple

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Bob Edwards

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

W. H. Auden

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.

Maitri Upanishads

The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.

Unknown

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Tom Hopkins

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Eudora Welty

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles De Gaulle

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

Jimmy Cannon

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Jacob Bigelow

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

Sometimes... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

John Peter Zenge

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

One dies only once, and then for such a long time!

Moli? re, Le D? pit Amoureux (1656)

Remember that lost time does not return.

Thomas a Kempis

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

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