Time Quotes

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug - Of - war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Pete Holiday

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

Iggy Pop

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Haniel Long

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

Cynthia Nelms

Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 14 - 03

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert, Dune

All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

Leo C. Rosten

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.

Richard M. Devos

I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Eleanor Marx

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour".

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Hippocrates, Precepts

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

Author Unknown

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Romare Beardon

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

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

Desiderius Erasmus

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

Mother Theresa

Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)