Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

time

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. 20 wisdom & wit from George S. Patton

We have time, there's no big rush. 22 other wisdom & wit from Jimi Hendrix

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. 74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. 11 other wisdom & wit from Jawaharlal Nehru

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational. 9 quotes from Charles M. Schulz

You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? 39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. 52 views from Albert Camus

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. 78 sayings from Voltaire

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got. 57 more thoughts from Will Rogers

A great artist is always before his time or behind it. 3 other quotes from George Edward Moore

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. 20 views from George S. Patton

Eternity is in love with the productions of time. 32 more views from William Blake

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. 57 other thoughts from Will Rogers

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. 25 thoughts from C. S. Lewis

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. 9 quotes from Charles M. Schulz

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. 98 views from Mark Twain

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it. 22 other quotes from Jimi Hendrix

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. 11 quotes from Bruce Lee

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. 11 other thoughts from Bruce Lee

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time. 57 more quotes from Will Rogers

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. 32 quotes from William Blake

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. 78 thoughts from Voltaire

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. 21 quotes from Dale Carnegie

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. 74 views from Winston Churchill

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. 25 more views from Will Durant

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. 9 quotes from Charles M. Schulz

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. 25 quotes from C. S. Lewis

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. 29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. 74 other views from Winston Churchill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. 74 views from Winston Churchill

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. 52 sayings from George Eliot

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. 4 quotes from Marie Curie

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. 4 sayings from Auguste Rodin

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. 22 more thoughts from Andre Gide

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. 98 more quotes from Mark Twain

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time. 78 other quotes from Voltaire

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. 98 more quotes from Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. 98 other thoughts from Mark Twain

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. 25 other wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. 6 other quotes from Johann Kaspar Lavater

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. 57 quotes from Will Rogers

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. 57 views from Will Rogers

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. 5 sayings from Jean Genet

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. 2 thoughts from Steven Biko

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. 6 other sayings from Alexander Smith

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. 18 quotes from Margaret Mead

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. 18 quotes from Margaret Mead

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. 14 other quotes from Heinrich Heine

In books lies the soul of the whole past time. 58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. 18 views from Margaret Mead

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. 7 quotes from Samuel Smiles

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. 58 other sayings from Thomas Carlyle

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. 3 other quotes from Louis Kronenberger

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. 58 other views from Thomas Carlyle

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. 18 more quotes from Margaret Mead

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. 26 more sayings from Emily Dickinson

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. 7 other views from William E. Gladstone

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. 58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. 9 quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. 75 more views from Benjamin Disraeli

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. 3 other quotes from Lillian Smith

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. 2 more sayings from Delmore Schwartz

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. 26 quotes from Emily Dickinson

There are no secrets that time does not reveal. 5 quotes from Jean Racine

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. 12 more quotes from Frank Zappa

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. 2 other quotes from Giordano Bruno

We must use time creatively. 41 more views from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time itself comes in drops. 40 other thoughts from William James

Time is money. 96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. 67 thoughts from Francis Bacon

We die only once, and for such a long time. 15 more sayings from Moliere

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. 19 other sayings from Elvis Presley

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. 15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. 12 thoughts from Thomas Merton

The time is always right to do what is right. 41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.

You may delay, but time will not. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

You can never plan the future by the past. 37 views from Edmund Burke

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. 96 views from Benjamin Franklin

Time and tide wait for no man. 6 other wisdom & wit from Geoffrey Chaucer

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. 24 sayings from W. C. Fields

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' 7 views from Lewis Carroll

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. 7 more quotes from Tallulah Bankhead

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. 12 more sayings from Zora Neale Hurston

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. 12 thoughts from Thomas Merton

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. 96 more wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. 96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. 96 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up. 21 wisdom & wit from George Burns

Friends are thieves of time. 67 sayings from Francis Bacon

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what. 19 more quotes from Elvis Presley

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. 67 thoughts from Francis Bacon

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. 56 thoughts from Khalil Gibran

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. 5 other quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time. 5 quotes from Janis Joplin

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. 6 sayings from Edith Wharton

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. 96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. 24 other quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. 24 thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. 19 more wisdom & wit from Anton Chekhov

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. 24 other quotes from Carl Sandburg

Lost time is never found again. 96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. 30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. 45 other quotes from Thomas Fuller

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. 7 views from Tallulah Bankhead

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. 41 more sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. 19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. 2 other thoughts from Jack London

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. 8 other quotes from Charles Darwin

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. 73 more views from Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. 73 other sayings from Victor Hugo

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. 33 wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. 29 other views from Arthur Schopenhauer

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow. 11 more sayings from Bob Marley

Everything comes in time to those who can wait. 13 more sayings from Francois Rabelais

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. 73 sayings from Victor Hugo

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. 31 more thoughts from Thomas Paine

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. 21 quotes from Anais Nin

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.' 33 more quotes from Erma Bombeck

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. 13 more quotes from Ansel Adams

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth. 13 other quotes from Francois Rabelais

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. 26 other quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. 26 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. 9 more quotes from John Steinbeck

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. 33 more quotes from Erma Bombeck

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. 23 more quotes from Thomas A. Edison

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. 12 views from John Barrymore

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. 73 views from Victor Hugo

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. 7 views from Lawrence Durrell

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. 47 more quotes from Abraham Lincoln

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. 30 other views from George Washington

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. 73 other sayings from Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. 6 thoughts from Thomas J. Watson

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. 12 views from John Barrymore

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' 47 other quotes from Abraham Lincoln

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. 47 more views from Abraham Lincoln

Time makes more converts than reason. 31 more quotes from Thomas Paine

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. 105 other views from Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

Time is the longest distance between two places. 17 thoughts from Tennessee Williams

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. 6 other quotes from Jack Kerouac

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. 17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. 18 views from Jean Paul

For time is the longest distance between two places. 17 other quotes from Tennessee Williams

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. 105 more quotes from Albert Einstein

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. 23 more thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. 18 views from Jean Paul

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. 11 quotes from Rene Descartes

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. 2 wisdom & wit from Herb Caen

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. 4 wisdom & wit from Dean Acheson

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. 4 wisdom & wit from Samuel Beckett

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. 41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius

I confess, I do not believe in time. 9 more quotes from Vladimir Nabokov

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 81 more thoughts from William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. 9 quotes from Robert Collier

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. 6 thoughts from Ulysses S. Grant

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time. 27 more wisdom & wit from Leonardo da Vinci

In time we hate that which we often fear. 81 more quotes from William Shakespeare

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. 70 other quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. 81 other views from William Shakespeare

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. 42 sayings from Josh Billings

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 21 quotes from Bette Davis

The best way to fill time is to waste it. 4 sayings from Marguerite Duras

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. 70 wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. 41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. 41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. 41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. 27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune. 11 other views from Charlie Chaplin

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. 70 more views from Thomas Jefferson

Time and the hour run through the roughest day. 81 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. 24 sayings from James A. Baldwin

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. 13 quotes from James M. Barrie

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. 33 wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. 46 thoughts from John F. Kennedy

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. 45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. 135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time spent with cats is never wasted. 26 wisdom & wit from Sigmund Freud

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. 46 other thoughts from John F. Kennedy

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. 7 other wisdom & wit from Max Frisch

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. 26 views from Harry S. Truman

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. 21 more views from Karl Marx

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. 45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. 26 other quotes from Sigmund Freud

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. 35 other thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. 35 thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. 53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. 35 thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. 30 other wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. 30 thoughts from Walt Whitman

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. 14 more quotes from Golda Meir

I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. 15 quotes from Orson Welles

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. 15 other wisdom & wit from Orson Welles

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. 21 more quotes from Malcolm X

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. 26 quotes from Harry S. Truman

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. 35 views from Rabindranath Tagore

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. 24 more quotes from James A. Baldwin

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. 135 other wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? 53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. 35 other quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion. 13 views from Fred Allen

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 135 other wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. 13 quotes from Fred Allen

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. 59 views from Elbert Hubbard

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. 26 sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. 6 more views from John Ciardi

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother. 53 other quotes from Marilyn Monroe

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. 59 thoughts from Elbert Hubbard

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. 57 views from Blaise Pascal

I read poetry to save time. 53 more wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. 47 quotes from George Orwell

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. 47 sayings from George Orwell

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. 7 quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. 47 quotes from George Orwell

Perfection is the child of time. 2 sayings from Joseph Hall

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. 28 thoughts from William Butler Yeats

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. 47 other views from George Orwell

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. 14 more quotes from Thomas Hardy

We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time. 16 sayings from Vince Lombardi

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. 57 other wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. 7 quotes from Judy Garland

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. 17 other wisdom & wit from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind. 8 sayings from Nathaniel Hawthorne

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. 10 quotes from Arthur Ashe

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. 18 other quotes from Marcel Proust

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. 32 sayings from Henry Ford

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. 115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. 35 views from Ernest Hemingway

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. 115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. 115 other views from George Bernard Shaw

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. 35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. 32 quotes from Henry Ford

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. 5 other wisdom & wit from Oswald Chambers

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. 35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. 14 more wisdom & wit from Andre Maurois

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. 12 views from Franz Kafka

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. 18 sayings from Marcel Proust

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. 32 more thoughts from Henry Ford

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. 3 other views from Roger Babson

Love is space and time measured by the heart. 18 sayings from Marcel Proust

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. 32 wisdom & wit from Henry Ford

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. 10 quotes from Hermann Hesse

Patience and time do more than strength or passion. 15 other quotes from Jean de La Fontaine

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. 19 thoughts from E. B. White

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. 12 views from Franz Kafka

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 32 quotes from Henry Ford

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. 115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. 4 quotes from Natalie Wood

The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. 18 quotes from Marcel Proust

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. 20 sayings from Herbert Hoover

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up. 31 other quotes from Mae West

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. 15 more quotes from John Locke

By the time we've made it, we've had it. 12 more thoughts from Malcolm Forbes

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left. 5 quotes from Ingrid Bergman

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. 16 quotes from Coco Chanel

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. 3 quotes from Robert Southey

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place. 4 thoughts from Meir Kahane

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. 24 thoughts from Lyndon B. Johnson

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. 50 other wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. 3 other quotes from Robert Southey

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. 26 thoughts from Jean de la Bruyere

To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time. 5 more wisdom & wit from Leonard Bernstein

Time was God's first creation. 2 wisdom & wit from Walter Lang

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. 18 views from Andy Warhol

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. 50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! 16 views from Coco Chanel

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. 13 quotes from Sydney J. Harris

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. 21 quotes from Leo Tolstoy

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time. 90 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Time stays, we go. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy? 6 other views from Freddie Mercury

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves. 90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. 60 other quotes from H. L. Mencken

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. 23 sayings from T. S. Eliot

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. 19 other wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. 60 views from H. L. Mencken

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. 19 other views from H. G. Wells

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. 60 other sayings from H. L. Mencken

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. 23 sayings from T. S. Eliot

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier. 60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. 5 quotes from Robert Staughton Lynd

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. 13 sayings from Sydney J. Harris

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. 23 thoughts from T. S. Eliot

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. 13 sayings from Sydney J. Harris

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. 63 more thoughts from Samuel Johnson

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. 6 quotes from Martin Heidegger

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. 103 other thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. 13 wisdom & wit from e. e. cummings

Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. 100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde

Don't wait. The time will never be just right. 28 quotes from Napoleon Hill

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. 100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. 15 other sayings from William Penn

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. 103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. 29 quotes from Groucho Marx

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt. 29 wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people. 100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. 100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

It takes a long time to become young. 29 thoughts from Pablo Picasso

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you. 29 wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early. 29 more quotes from Groucho Marx

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind. 6 more sayings from Helen Hunt Jackson

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. 16 thoughts from Paul Valery

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. 17 thoughts from John Lennon

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. 15 quotes from William Penn

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. 2 thoughts from Faith Baldwin

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. 6 quotes from Timothy Leary