Time Quotes

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

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

Unknown

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

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

M. Grundle

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

Anonymous

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Quentin Crisp

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.

George Dennison Prentice

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Russell Hoban

If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Benjamin McLane Spock

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Socrates, Apology, (Plato)

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

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

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

Buddha

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Horace Greeley

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 1717 Bible

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

Larry Niven

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

To save time is to lengthen life.

Author Unknown

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo