Time Quotes
Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.Allphonse de Lamartine
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw Lec
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.Carl Sagan
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.Chinese Prove
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.Benjamin Franklin
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.Sir Francis Bacon
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.William James
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.Thich Nhat Hanh
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.William Shakespeare
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.Douglas Adams
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.Oscar Wilde
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.Sydney Smith
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.Peter De Vries
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.Mary Anne Radmache
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.Epictetus
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.John Barrymore
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.Joe Moore
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.Niels Henrik David Boh
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
What is life? It is a 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
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
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.Frances Watkins Harpe
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.Mayer Amschal Rothschild
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.English Prove
The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.William Shakespeare, "Troilus and Cressida", Act 4 scene 5
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.William James
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.Abraham Lincoln
May you always live in interesting times.Chinese Curse
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.Abraham Lincoln
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.John F. Kennedy
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.Judith Rossne
