Time Quotes

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.

Carol Burnett

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Anon.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.

Maitri Upanishads

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Michel de Montaigne

There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.

H. L. Mencken

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Haniel Long

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri

Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

Chitto Harjo

Long stormy spring - Time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

Thomas Carlyle

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

Frances Burnett

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Amanda Heggs

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)

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, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

William Gladstone

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

E. B. White

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.

Mahatma Gandhi

Remember that lost time does not return.

Thomas a Kempis

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Plutarch

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hunter S. Thompson

When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.

Bible, Ecclesaistes 7: 14