Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

William Butler Yeats

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

William Butler Yeats

And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

William Butler Yeats

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

Walter Savage Landor

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

Walter Scott

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.

Walter Scott

Time rolls his ceaseless course.

William Jones

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

Yogi Berra

It's not over until it's over.

Winifred Holtby

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

Winifred Holtby

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ...

Winston Churchill

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

Winston Churchill

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Winston Churchill

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

William S. Burroughs

Time is what death needs to grow people in.

Virginia Woolf

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Virginia Woolf

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Saint Augustine

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Wiz Khalifa

Time is money, so I went and bought a rolex.

Wilson Mizner

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

Wilson Mizner

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

Will Rogers

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Will Rogers

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Warren Farrell

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

Virginia Woolf

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Zakk Wylde

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

Zakk Wylde

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Zhang Yimou

Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

Zhang Yimou

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

Zhang Ziyi

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.