Time Quotes

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Al Rogers

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.

Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Beryl Pfize

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht

There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it.

Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Alfred A. Montapert

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Bob Marley

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar.

Robert Brault

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Jacob Bigelow

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Sir Francis Bacon

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Fulton John Sheen

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

Frederick W. Taylo

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.

Aristotle

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Author Unknown

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Chazal

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

John Ruskin

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barke

A Multitasking Timex Sinclai.

Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X - Windows