Time Quotes

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand de Jouvenal

Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

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

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoove

Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.

Unknown

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard Byrd

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.

Nigerian Prove

To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Napoleon I

A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.

Frank Vanderlip

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

Jimmy Cannon

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be... and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.

Ecclesiates 1922 Bible

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

What you give you get, ten times over.

Yoruba Prove

Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. While we talk, hostile time flies away.

Horace

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

In an information world where we all have someday to say it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2004

When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.

Harold Walke

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Henry van Dyke

If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Gerald W. Johnson

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

D. March

What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.

Francois Arouet

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

Book of Common Praye