Time Quotes

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Tobias G. Smollett

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Charles Grodin

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.

Hubert Humphrey

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Unknown

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

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.

Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929

To be a housewife is... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

Phyllis Mcginley

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.

Sun Bea

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin P. Adams

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

Junius

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Desiderius Erasmus

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

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Miguel De Cervantes

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S. Truman

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Jonathan Swift

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

If I had the time to sit down and write a thank - You note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Joseph Parry

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage