Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

James Russell Lowell

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

James Russell Lowell

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

James Russell Lowell

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

James Russell Lowell

One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.

James Russell Lowell

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

James Russell Lowell

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Laurence Sterne

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

Laurence Sterne

If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.

Friedrich Schiller

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

Friedrich Schiller

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

Friedrich Schiller

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Harvey Fierstein

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

Louise Erdrich

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

Louise Erdrich

Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

Glenn Hoddle

The end of the season's come at the wrong time for both.

John Schneider

You will have all the time in the world

Henry B. Eyring

Invest time that will compound forever.

Hector Berlioz

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried.

Henry David Thoreau

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

Henry David Thoreau

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

Jacob Bronowski

Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

Hartley Coleridge

If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.

Johnny Rivers

The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.

Emmanuel Jal

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

Lesley Nicol

The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.