Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

William Butler Yeats

And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

William Butler Yeats

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

Walter Savage Landor

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

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

Time rolls his ceaseless course.

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.

Winifred Holtby

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

Winifred Holtby

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ...

Winston Churchill

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

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

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

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.

Rebecca Solnit

When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.

Rick Warren

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

Steve Yzerman

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

Rebecca Solnit

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Rudyard Kipling

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

Samuel Johnson

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Samuel Johnson

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Samuel Johnson

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Samuel Johnson

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Samuel Johnson

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Samuel Johnson

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

Ronald Reagan

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.