Time Quotes

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.

Unknown

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nelson Mendela

The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.

Dan Kelly

Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Alfred E. Wiggam

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Victor Hugo

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all - wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

Duncan Maxwell Anderson

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

Time the devourer of all things.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.

Danish prove

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.

Leo Buscaglia

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 1717 Bible

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Alvin Toffle

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

Sarah Brady

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

A. E. Houseman

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.

Bertrand Russell

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

Lin Yutang

Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

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

Hippocrates

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.

B. J. Gupta

In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...

John Simon

Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000