Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Jose Mujica

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself,

Jose Canseco

Time travel is possible. Will explain later

Jorge Luis Borges

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Jorge Luis Borges

The time for your labor has been granted.

Joni Mitchell

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

Jonathan Swift

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Khaled Hosseini

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Khalil Gibran

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

Khalil Gibran

And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Khalil Gibran

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

Jonathan Swift

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

Jonathan Swift

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Jonathan Safran Foer

How did her life live itself without her.

Napoleon Hill

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

Lois McMaster Bujold

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

Lois McMaster Bujold

One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

Livy

Potius sero quam nunquam. Better late than never.

Livy

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

Livy

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

Louis D. Brandeis

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...

Loretta Young

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

Loretta Young

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

Lord Byron

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

Lord Byron

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Lord Byron

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

Lord Byron

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.