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Quotes about Time


There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery.

Dante

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.

Lewis Grizzard

There is one thing stronger that all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.

William Strong

If you go into a situation with nothing planned, sometimes wonderful stuff happens.

Jerry Garcia

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consultant: n. One who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is and then keeps the watch.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains --- except kill it.

Erich Fromm

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

Japanese proverb

Mr. Bullfrog sez: Time is fun when you're having flies.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

program (pro'-gram) [vi] To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall but with fewer opportunities for reward.

Doust thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

G. H. Hardy

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Richard Ben Sapir

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.

William Strong

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

Time is the best teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its students.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

French proverb

These are the tries that time men's soles.

Heard at a track and field tryout

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings

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