Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. M. Coetzee

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

J. K. Rowling

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

J. K. Rowling

Time is making fools of us again.

H. G. Wells

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

H. L. Mencken

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

Guillaume Apollinaire

One day One day I waited for myself I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came So I could know just who I am I who know others

the heart and the almanac never agree about time ...

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

George Herbert

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Jennifer Aniston

I always say don't make plans, make options.

Gloria Gaither

I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.

Gertrude Stein

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

And let its meaning permeate Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Time is the best avenger.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Horace

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Horace

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Horace

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

Horace

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

Horace

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Horace Mann

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Horace Mann

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Nate Robertson

If I had that every time out, I'd go 32-, 33-0.