968 private quotes tagged time

“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” — Thomas Fuller

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“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.” — Victor Hugo

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“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.” — Warren Buffett

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“Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.” — Will Rogers

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“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.” — Plato

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“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Time discovers truth.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.” — Steven Wright

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“I live in a crazy time.” — Anne Frank

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“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.” — Aristotle

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“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.” — Bertrand Russell

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“If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.” — H. G. Wells

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“I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.” — Charles M. Schulz

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“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.” — Winston Churchill

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“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.” — Harry S. Truman

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“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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