Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Rosten

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

Leo Buscaglia

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

Larry McMurtry

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

Lewis Carroll

My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

Lewis Carroll

"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

Lewis Carroll

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

Lewis Carroll

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Lewis Carroll

What I tell you three times is true.

Josephine Hart

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

Joseph Wood Krutch

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

Julio Cortazar

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Juliette Binoche

I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said no. I just didn't give an answer!

Josh Billings

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

Josh Billings

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Josh Billings

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Karl Albrecht

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

Karl Kraus

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Karl Kraus

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

Otto von Bismarck

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Oscar Wilde

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Julien Green

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

Paracelsus

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

Paramahansa Yogananda

If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Change your life by changing your thoughts.

Owen Hart

Enough is enough and it's time for a change.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

Ovid

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

Time is generally the best doctor.

Pericles

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?