Time Quotes

"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war."
-Albert Einstein

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
-Albert Einstein

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."
-Albert Einstein

"I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas."
-Voltaire

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."
-Aaron Rosenberg

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
-Abraham Lincoln

"The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
-Abraham Lincoln

"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again."
-Abraham Lincoln

"No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time."
-Mark Twain

"Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
-Mark Twain

"Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction."
-Mark Twain

"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."
-Mark Twain

"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."
-Plato

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time."
-George Orwell

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
-Henry Ford

"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"
-Dr. Seuss

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
-John F. Kennedy

"One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."
-Aristotle

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
-Aristotle

"Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
-Aristotle

"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."
-Aristotle

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. "
-Andre Gide