Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Benjamin Franklin

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Benjamin Franklin

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

He that rises late must trot all day.

Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Benjamin Franklin

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Benjamin Franklin

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Benjamin Franklin

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Barbara Sher

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Augustus

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

Art Linkletter

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

Art Buchwald

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

Arthur Ashe

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

Ayn Rand

You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?

Ayn Rand

That time and those people are upon you!

Ayn Rand

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

Bertrand Russell

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Benjamin Disraeli

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Benjamin Disraeli

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

Benjamin Disraeli

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

Benjamin Disraeli

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Barry Long

The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.

Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.