Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

Lord Byron

The busy have no time for tears.

Lord Kelvin

At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

Loren Eiseley

The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.

Lord Chesterfield

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Lord Chesterfield

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Lord Chesterfield

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Malcolm Forbes

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Malcolm Forbes

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Gene Wolfe

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You may ask me for anything you like except time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.

Orson Welles

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

Orison Swett Marden

We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

Orison Swett Marden

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

O. Henry

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

Octavio Paz

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Norton Juster

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

Norman Vincent Peale

A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

Norman Vincent Peale

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Emile M. Cioran

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Emile M. Cioran

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

Emile M. Cioran

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

Emile M. Cioran

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

Emile M. Cioran

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Emile M. Cioran

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.