Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Penn Warren

So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Walt Whitman

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Walt Whitman

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

Roseanne Barr

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

Ronnie Wood

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

William Faulkner

I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

William Faulkner

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Willem de Kooning

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Ronald Reagan

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Saint Francis de Sales

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

Saint Augustine

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

Saint Augustine

Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet.

Wiz Khalifa

Time is money, so I went and bought a rolex.

Will Rogers

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Will Rogers

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Zakk Wylde

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Zhang Yimou

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

Warren Zevon

Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

Walter Lippmann

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

William Butler Yeats

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

William Butler Yeats

And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

Walter Scott

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.

Walter Scott

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

William Jones

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

Yogi Berra

It's not over until it's over.

Winston Churchill

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

Winston Churchill

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.