Time Quotes

Walt west - the trouble with doing something right the first...
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
H. L. Mencken
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
Edgar Watson Howe
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
Samuel johnson - it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and...
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.
John Wesley
Seneca - it is pleasant at times to play the madman....
The time for thinkers has come.
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health
In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
Robert Byrne
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
C. C. Colton
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
Euripides
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
Donald G. Smith
Gather ye rose - Buds while ye may, Old Time is still a - Flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Mark Twain
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
Unknown
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.
Charles Grodin
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
There isn? t 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 aren? t really living without it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - - And know the place for the first time.
T. S Eliot
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King J
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand.
Robert Louis Stephenson
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
Nathan M. Pusey
Revolution is not a onetime event.
Audre Lorde
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.
Charles Dickens
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
Victor Hugo
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.
Humphrey Davy
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
James Barrie
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
Charles Caleb Colton
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".
An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
Chinese Prove