Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marla Gibbs

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

Mark Twain

Geological time is not money.

Mark Twain

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Mark Twain

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

Mark Twain

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Mark Twain

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Mark Twain

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Mark Twain

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

Mark Twain

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Mark Twain

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Mae West

Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

Francois Rabelais

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Francois Rabelais

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

Christopher Hitchens

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

Christopher Fry

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Germaine Greer

A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.

Gertrude Stein

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Gertrude Stein

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

Gertrude Stein

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

Havelock Ellis

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

George Washington

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

George Santayana

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

George Santayana

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

George Santayana

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

George Orwell

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

George Orwell

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Neale Donald Walsch

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

Marcel Proust

A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

Joseph Addison

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Joseph Addison

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.