Time Quotes - page 4

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Friends are thieves of time. View quote
Francis Bacon
You can't be wise and in love at the same time. View quote
Bob Dylan
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. View quote
Frank Sinatra
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. View quote
Warren Buffett
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mound the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. View quote
Sydney Smith
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. View quote
Henry van Dyke
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Time bears away all things, even the mind. View quote
Virgil
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. View quote
Edmund Waller
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. View quote
Max Frisch
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. View quote
Arturo Toscanini
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. (David Lloyd George)
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work. View quote
George Carlin
One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities. View quote
Thomas Carlyle