Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.

Ovid

Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.

Ovid

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

Ovid

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

Ovid

All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

Ovid

Tempus fugit (time flies).

Mary Wollstonecraft

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Hunter Austin

The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me.

Martha Graham

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

Marshall McLuhan

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

Marshall McLuhan

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Marshall McLuhan

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Marisa Tomei

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

Marguerite Young

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

Michel de Montaigne

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Michel de Montaigne

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Michel de Montaigne

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel de Montaigne

I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

Michel de Montaigne

Time steals away without any inconvenience.

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.