Time Quotes

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

Sir Francis Bacon

If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.

Author Unknown

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Andy Warhol

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

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Mary Montagu

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

Peter de Jage

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Napoleon I

Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

I thank my God everytime I remember you.

Philippians 13 NIV Bible

I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.

Tim Burton, Burton On Burton

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863

It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.

William Hamilton

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.

Polish Prove

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Samuel Butle

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

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

Rebecca West

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We? re looking for something, though we? re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2003

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Anna Freud

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Robert Half

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Louis - Hector Berlioz

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

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred De Musset

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Alighieri Dante

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

Casey Stengel

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert