Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Horace

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Horace

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Horace

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

Horace

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

Horace

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Horace Mann

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Horace Mann

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Nate Robertson

If I had that every time out, I'd go 32-, 33-0.

David Alpay

I do want to have kids. Every time I see a little kid, I get excited, and I want to spend time with them.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

Scott Wilson

I am a stickler for always having to know what time it is.

Tom Corbett

I am not prepared, ... at this time to vote in the affirmative.

Sophia Amoruso

I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on what I've already done because there is still so much to do.

Dascha Polanco

I doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.

I don't think until the end of time it's going to be 0-1,000.

Atom Egoyan

He's my hero, so any time I get to wade into his world is pretty satisfying.

Erica Jong

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

Jasper Fforde

Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

Hippocrates

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Eugene Delacroix

Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.

Eugene Delacroix

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Eugene Ionesco

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

Eugene Ionesco

We haven't the time to take out time.

Jack London

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Jack Nicklaus

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Jack Gilbert

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.