Quotes about time
time history eternity
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. Herodotus
time women literature
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time. Helen Rowland
time fighting ideas
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. Heinrich Heine
time done watches
I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch. Hilaire Belloc
time liars aunt
For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.
time flow all-things
All things flow, nothing abides. Heraclitus
time children games
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
time humor people
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins. Henry Ward Beecher
time men long
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
time two age
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?
time vehement cold
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. Johann Kaspar Lavater
time next moral
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
time stupid hero
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
time destiny people
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
time good-life insperational
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
time book exercise
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
time tyrants different-faces
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
time wish limits
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
time children age
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
time faults committed
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
time long world
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
time heart honor
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
time age faults
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
time youth form
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
time powerful moments
The present moment is a powerful goddess.
time appreciate use
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
time elements dies
Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
time details stealing
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. Khaled Hosseini
time watches spirit
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
time past love-is
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.
time self stronger
Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.
time people giving
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
time world lasts
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.