Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norm MacDonald

A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.

Noel Gallagher

It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!

Nnamdi Azikiwe

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

Mitch Albom

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

Neil Gaiman

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

John Newton

Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

John Ruskin

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

John Ruskin

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling.

John Ruskin

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

John Steinbeck

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

John Steinbeck

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Marie Dressler

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Marie Corelli

Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!

Marie Curie

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

Mariel Hemingway

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

Marge Piercy

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.

Theodor Adorno

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

Margaret Mead

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

Margaret Mead

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Kin Hubbard

A loafer always has the correct time.

Michael Faraday

I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.

Max Frisch

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Matthew Arnold

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Matthew Arnold

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Matthew Arnold

A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.

Matthew Arnold

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Matthew Arnold

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

Matthew Arnold

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

Maya Angelou

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Max Beerbohm

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.