Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

The moment has no time.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

Leonardo da Vinci

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Leonardo da Vinci

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Leonardo da Vinci

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...

Leonardo da Vinci

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Oscar Wilde

I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Paul Fussell

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

Paul Gauguin

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

Lillian Hellman

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

LeAnn Rimes

There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for.

Laurence Olivier

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

Lauren Oliver

Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

Larry Wall

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

Lillian Smith

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Pablo Picasso

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over....

Oscar Wilde

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Oscar Wilde

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Oscar Wilde

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Oscar Wilde

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Oscar Wilde

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde

Punctuality is the thief of time

Oscar Wilde

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Iris Murdoch

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Gioachino Rossini

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

Harry S Truman

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.