Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

time

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. 105 other wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

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

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

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 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 more sayings from Jean Paul

For time is the longest distance between two places. 17 views 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 views 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 wisdom & wit from Vincent Van Gogh

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

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. 105 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 thoughts from Herb Caen

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. 4 other views from Dean Acheson

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

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

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

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 81 quotes 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 more thoughts 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 other views from Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. 42 wisdom & wit 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 sayings 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

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

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

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

Time and the hour run through the roughest day. 81 other quotes from William Shakespeare

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

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. 70 more quotes 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 more thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

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 more wisdom & wit from James A. Baldwin

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

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

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. 45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time. 135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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 spent with cats is never wasted. 26 other quotes from Sigmund Freud

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. 21 sayings 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 thoughts from Bertrand Russell

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. 26 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 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

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

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. 53 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 quotes 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 other thoughts 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 sayings from Walt Whitman

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. 14 more sayings 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 other quotes from Orson Welles

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. 15 quotes 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 sayings 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 quotes 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 views from James A. Baldwin

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. 135 other quotes 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 views from Honore de Balzac

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

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

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 135 more sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. 13 sayings 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 other quotes 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 quotes 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 views from John Ciardi

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother. 53 wisdom & wit 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 other sayings from Elbert Hubbard

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

I read poetry to save time. 53 other sayings from Marilyn Monroe

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. 53 other wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from George Orwell

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. 7 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Joseph Hall

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. 28 quotes 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

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. 17 more sayings from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw

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

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

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. 117 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. 115 quotes 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 other quotes from Ernest Hemingway

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

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. 5 thoughts 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 other quotes from Ernest Hemingway

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

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. 12 quotes 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 views from Marcel Proust

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

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

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

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

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

Patience and time do more than strength or passion. 15 wisdom & wit from Jean de La Fontaine

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

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. 12 quotes 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 more thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. 4 more views 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 sayings from Marcel Proust

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

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

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

By the time we've made it, we've had it. 12 other views 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 views 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 views 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 wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. 50 more views 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 views from Robert Southey

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

Time was God's first creation. 2 quotes from Walter Lang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 more sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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 more quotes 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 views from H. G. Wells

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

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

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

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. 23 more quotes 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 more 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 other 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 thoughts 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 more quotes 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 quotes 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 sayings from Samuel Johnson

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. 6 other 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 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. 103 views 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 quotes from Groucho Marx

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. 17 other wisdom & wit from John Lennon

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. 6 other wisdom & wit from Timothy Leary

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

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

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

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

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 sayings from Will Rogers

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. 74 more quotes from Winston Churchill

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

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

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 wisdom & wit from Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

We have time, there's no big rush. 22 thoughts from Jimi Hendrix

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

A great artist is always before his time or behind it. 3 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 views from Mark Twain

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. 20 more wisdom & wit from George S. Patton

Eternity is in love with the productions of time. 32 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 more views from C. S. Lewis

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

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. 98 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit 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 more sayings from Jimi Hendrix

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

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. 11 quotes 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 views 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 more quotes from Voltaire

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. 21 wisdom & wit 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 other 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 other sayings from Will Durant

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. 9 other 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 sayings from C. S. Lewis

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

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. 74 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 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 views from Marie Curie

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

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

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill

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

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time. 78 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 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 sayings 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 quotes from C. S. Lewis

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. 6 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 more quotes from Will Rogers

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. 5 other views 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 views from Steven Biko

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

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

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

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

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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. 18 quotes 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 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Louis Kronenberger

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. 58 other quotes 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

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

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. 75 quotes 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 sayings from Lillian Smith

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 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

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 wisdom & wit from William E. Gladstone

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

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

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

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

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. 75 more wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

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

Time itself comes in drops. 40 quotes from William James

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 wisdom & wit from Thomas Merton

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

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

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

Time is money. 96 other sayings from Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Time and tide wait for no man. 6 thoughts from Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' 7 other sayings 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 quotes from Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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

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

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. 96 views 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 sayings from George Burns

Friends are thieves of time. 67 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Elvis Presley

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. 67 more views 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 quotes 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 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 thoughts from Janis Joplin

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

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

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

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

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. 96 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Anton Chekhov

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

Lost time is never found again. 96 views 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 more sayings from Charles Caleb Colton

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

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. 7 quotes 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 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. 19 more 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 quotes from Jack London

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

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. 33 more quotes 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 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Everything comes in time to those who can wait. 13 other wisdom & wit from Francois Rabelais

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. 73 thoughts 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 quotes from Thomas Paine

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. 21 other sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. 13 other views 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 thoughts from Francois Rabelais

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. 26 thoughts 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 views 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 sayings 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 thoughts from Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 sayings from Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

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

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