Time Quotes

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.

T. S. Eliot

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Willem de Kooning

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Guy

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Denis Watley

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Mark Twain

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

How can a guy hit and think at the same time.

Lawrence Peter Berra

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Time is but a stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

Unknown

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Seneca

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

We shall not 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, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657

Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Sallust

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. promoting US exports, as quoted in Time.

Phil Gramm

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann von Goethe

Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

CaddyShack

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be.

Councilman John Bowman commenting on the high crime in Washington

If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Thomas Carlyle