Time Quotes
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.P. G. Wodehouse
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.George Bernard Shaw
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.Elie Wiesel
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.William Shakespeare
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.From the last episode of "Cheers".
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.Sir Winston Churchill
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.Clive Staples Lewis
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.Unknown
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
No matter how long it takes, If you keep moving, One step at a time, You will reach the finish line...Unknown
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.Clarence Day
Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.Unknown
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - The cemetery.Author Unknown
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.Ovid
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.W. C. Fields
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.Henry David Thoreau
Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)
Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.Edmund Burke
It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra
EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for something, though were not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.Real Live Preache
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.Winston Churchill
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one.Selwyn Champion
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.Johann von Schille
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.B. J. Gupta
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.David Letterman
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.Bob Edwards
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
