Time Quotes

John cleese - if you want creative workers, give them enough...
Douglas noel adams - man has always assumed that he was more...
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
Richard Willard Armou
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
Fontenelle
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara Tuchman
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.
George Gordon Byron
Stella terrill mann - every time we say, let there be in any form,...
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
Rodney Yee
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.
Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Al Bernstein
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Rita Rudne
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.
George Chapman
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time.
Dame Rebecca West
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.
Nelson Mandela
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Geri Weitzman
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Unknown
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
John Barrymore
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin".
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Herman Melville
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
Joe Moore
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
Australian Aboriginal Prove
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.
Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935