Hours Quotes

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. (Woody Allen)

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

Aristotle Onassis

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Benjamin Disraeli

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Horace Mann

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Jerome K. Jerome

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Ulysses S. Grant

The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

William Blake

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..

Henry David Thoreau

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. (John D. Rockefeller)

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Louisa May Alcott

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

Emil Cioran

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

Roald Dahl

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Anthony Trollope

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

E. F. Benson

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'

Winston Churchill

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Janet Frame

On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

Daniel Webster

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

Horace Mann

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