Quotes
Quotes about Time
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Oftentimes excusing of a fault
Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental', 'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit or convenience was at stake.
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.
Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk.
Sometimes to remain silent is to lie.
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is ... impossible.
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
