Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Herford

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Oliver Goldsmith

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

Oliver Goldsmith

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

Margaret Atwood

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

Margaret Atwood

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

Margaret Atwood

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

Margaret Atwood

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backwards in time and exist in two places at once.

Margaret Atwood

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

Margaret Atwood

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time is the herald of truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Marc Bolan

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

Kenny Smith

People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values. The same thing applies to money that applies to time. I make a practice of watching what people do, never what they say. Whatever is important, to anyone sane, he will make a place for it; people live out their values. Values are different in this respect from "ideals," which are typically vain and effete and thus exist mostly for the sake of promoting self-delusions.

Margaret Thatcher

Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.

Margaret Deland

The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

Mark Twain

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

Mark Twain

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Mark Twain

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Mark Twain

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Mark Twain

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Mark Twain

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Mark Twain

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Leonardo da Vinci

O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.