Quotes
Quotes about Time
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinnersâyour lecherous liars and your miserly drunkardsâwho dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
I was learning the importance of namesâ having them, making themâbut at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flash of snowy robe Time's dusky veil of twilight gray?
Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath Was sweeter, in the blast of death, Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
In times of stress and strain, people will vote.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.
It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
One step at a time is good walking.
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
A want becomes a have with time.
He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure Peut combattre derechef.]
O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.
