Time Quotes

In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.

Brian Sutton - Smith

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Sallust

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Horace

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

What you give you get, ten times over.

Yoruba Prove

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Wittgenstein

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.

Thomas Alva Edison

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Isaac Watts

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid.

Virgil

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

Molly Wiest

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

Unknown

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.

Lester R Bittel

Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.

Allphonse de Lamartine

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.

William Jefferson Clinton

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Niels Henrik David Boh

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

How can a guy hit and think at the same time.

Lawrence Peter Berra

No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966

Sometimes on the way to our dreams, We get lost and find an even better one.

Unknown

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.

Coolio, The Winne

Everybody likes to go their own way - - To choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

I think and think for months and years. Ninety - Nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein, Sc

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.

Hubert Humphrey

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

H. L. Mencken

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!