Famous Time Quotes



So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Franz Kafka

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Emily Dickinson

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Benjamin Franklin

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

James Joyce

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever.

Samuel Smiles

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.

Alfred North Whitehead

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.

Jeremy Bentham

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.

Will Rogers

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.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Michelangelo

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Stendhal

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.

Will Rogers

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.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Rabindranath Tagore

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein

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

Abraham Lincoln

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Virginia Woolf

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Charles Baudelaire

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

John Barrymore

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

George Washington

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Johannes Tauler

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

Emily Dickinson

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

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.

Paracelsus

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Robert Browning

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

Antonio Gramsci

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Walt Whitman

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.

Emma Goldman

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

John Locke

I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Oscar Wilde

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Johannes Tauler

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Samuel Johnson

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

Oscar Wilde

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

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Samuel Johnson

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

Mark Twain

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Samuel Daniel

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabindranath Tagore

Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Benjamin Franklin

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

Ernst Mach

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Actually what I'm really like is very different. I just so rarely find time for it.

Ödön von Horváth

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.

Thomas Jefferson

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Joseph Joubert

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Calvin Coolidge

A dog's loyalty is a bond that transcends time, distance, and even death.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Henry David Thoreau

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

William Blake

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.

Calvin Coolidge

Nature's seasons remind us that change is inevitable and that growth comes in its own time.

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