968 private quotes tagged time

“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” — Oscar Wilde

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.” — Sophocles

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“Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.” — Mason Cooley

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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The days are long, but the years are short.” — Gretchen Rubin

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“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.” — T. S. Eliot

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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain

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“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” — William Penn

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“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” — William Penn

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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” — Pablo Picasso

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“But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.” — Aristotle

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“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.” — Karl Marx

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“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.” — Aldous Huxley

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“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

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“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“For time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams

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