Quotes
Quotes about Time
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars â all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose â there is no such war in the history of the race.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. â¢Benito Mussolini In time of war the first casualty is truth. â¢Boake Carter Only the defeated and deserters go to war. â¢Henry David Thoreau All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.
Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.
His work well done, the leader stepped aside Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride. Content to wear the higher crown of worth, While time endures, "First citizen of earth."
While Washington hath left His awful memory, A light for after times.
That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the languages belonging to all tribes and races of men, will forever be pronounced with affectionate gratitude by everyone in whose breast there shall arise an aspiration for human rights and liberty.
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
