Famous Time Quotes
Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There’s no accounting for anyone’s taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it’s the same with public officials.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Truth is the daughter of time.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Actually what I'm really like is very different. I just so rarely find time for it.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
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.
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day’s time they will have turned it into a Hell.
I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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.
As the snowflakes gently fall and the world transforms into a serene winter wonderland, Christmas arrives like a beautiful melody, reminding us to cherish the bonds that unite us. It's a time to wrap ourselves in the warmth of togetherness, reminisce about cherished memories, and revel in the joy of giving. May this festive season fill your heart with love, peace, and endless happiness.
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
When the glow of Christmas lights breaks through the darkness and candles cast a soft glow in our eyes, we feel the magic of this special time. Christmas is the moment when we share stories of years gone by, embrace in each other's arms, and enjoy the silence of the present. May your heart be filled with love and peace during this festive season.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
As the first snow falls gently outside, covering the world in a white blanket, the season of reflection begins. Christmas is the moment when we leave behind the hustle and bustle of everyday life, embrace the warmth of community, and feel the power of love. May this festive time be filled with heartfelt moments for you and your loved ones.
We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
You may delay, but time will not.
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
