Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Horace

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

Horace

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

Horace

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Horace Mann

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Horace Mann

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Gioachino Rossini

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

Harry S Truman

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Harry S Truman

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

J. M. Coetzee

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

J. M. Coetzee

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

J. K. Rowling

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

J. K. Rowling

Time is making fools of us again.

H. G. Wells

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

H. L. Mencken

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

Guillaume Apollinaire

One day One day I waited for myself I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came So I could know just who I am I who know others

the heart and the almanac never agree about time ...

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

George Herbert

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Nate Robertson

If I had that every time out, I'd go 32-, 33-0.

David Alpay

I do want to have kids. Every time I see a little kid, I get excited, and I want to spend time with them.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

Scott Wilson

I am a stickler for always having to know what time it is.

Tom Corbett

I am not prepared, ... at this time to vote in the affirmative.

Sophia Amoruso

I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on what I've already done because there is still so much to do.