Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Chesterfield

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Lord Chesterfield

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Malcolm Forbes

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Malcolm Forbes

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Malcolm Forbes

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Gene Wolfe

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

Josh Billings

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

Josh Billings

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Josh Billings

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Karl Albrecht

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

Karl Kraus

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Karl Kraus

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

Otto von Bismarck

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Oscar Wilde

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Julien Green

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

Haruki Murakami

Killing time is not an easy job.

Haruki Murakami

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

Haruki Murakami

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.

Lord Chesterfield

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Byron

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

John Clare

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

M. Scott Peck

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

John Archibald Wheeler

Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.

Rebecca Sugar

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.