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

time

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.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

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.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

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

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

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.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

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

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

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

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

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Friends are thieves of time.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

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

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.

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.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

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

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

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

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.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Lost time is never found again.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

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.

Time itself comes in drops.

Time is money.

You can never plan the future by the past.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Time and tide wait for no man.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

You may delay, but time will not.

The time is always right to do what is right.

We must use time creatively.

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

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Time makes more converts than reason.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

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

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

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

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

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

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

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

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

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

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

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

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

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

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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.

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.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

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

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

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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

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.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

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.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

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.

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

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

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.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

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

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

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.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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

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

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

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.

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

I read poetry to save time.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Perfection is the child of time.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

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

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

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.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

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.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Time was God's first creation.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

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

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

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.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

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

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

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.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

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.

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.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

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.

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.

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

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Time stays, we go.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

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

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

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

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

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

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

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.

It takes a long time to become young.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

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

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

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.

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.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

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

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

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

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.

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

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

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

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

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

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.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

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

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

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.

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

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

We have time, there's no big rush.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

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

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

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?

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

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.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.