Time Quotes

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.

Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Isak Dinesen

When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.

David Browe

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.

Donna Summe

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

George Herbert

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.

Mark Yost

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Joseph Parry

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

D. March

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.

Unknown

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Kareem Abdul - Jaba