Time Quotes

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...

W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

William E. Holle

No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

James Arthur Baldwin

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Abigail Van Buren

Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens, Great expectations

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.

Henry Van Dyke

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

James Thurbe

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

Nicolas Boileau

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

Robert Charles Benchley

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

Chinese Prove

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

James Goldsmith

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Earl of Chesterfield

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Albert Einstein

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.

Alastair Reid

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal

Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.

Happy Gilmore

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating