Quotes
Quotes about Time
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings.
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.
For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities.
London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault of love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.
How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:-- So many time do I love again.
Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
