Time

37 quotes.

• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

• A little help at the right time is better than a lot of help at the wrong time.

  Anonymous

• Carpe diem, quam minimum credula a postero. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

  Horace

• Comedy is tragedy plus time.

  Carol Burnett

• Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

  Wernher von Braun

• Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade.

  Anonymous

• Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

  Woody Allen

• Hope is important . . . because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

  Anonymous

• I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

• If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

  Anonymous

• If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions.

  Buddhist Saying

• In time of war the first casualty is truth.

  Boake Carter

• Make new friends, but keep old friends. One is silver, the other is gold. All of them are just like jewels. Age will mellow and refine them.

  Anonymous

• My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

  Charles F. Kettering

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King Jr.

• The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

  Franklin P. Jones

• The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more important to do.

  Anonymous

• There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

  Henry Kissinger

• There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing.

  Anonymous

• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

  Joseph Addison

• There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

  Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"

• This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

  Dan Millman

• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

  Carl Bard

• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

  Marcus Aurelius

• Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

  Douglas Adams

• Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

  Anonymous

• Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

  Jon Lithgow

• Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

  Sanskrit proverb

• Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today is a gift. That's why it's called 'the present'.

  Loretta LaRoche

• You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Abraham Lincoln

• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

• You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

• No artist is ahead of his time. He 'is' his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

  Martha Graham

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