Time Quotes

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Andy Warhol

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I wasted time, now time doth waste me.

William Shakespeare, Richard II

Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.

Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Howard Aiken

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Ballantine Gough

I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.

Tim Burton, Burton On Burton

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

Benny Hill

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pablo Picasso

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

Sometimes I think the so - Called experts actually ARE experts.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Time is the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Robert Darwin

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

M. Scott Peck

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Lee Segall

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Eudora Welty

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Willem de Kooning

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.

John Stuart Mill