time quotes

• Time and tide wait for no man. (Geoffrey Chaucer) [time]
• Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [enemies/time]
• The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [time]
• Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [time]
• Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [mail/time]
• Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [pleasure/time/give/willpower]
• The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [time]
• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [value/time/moment/idleness]
• One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [time]
• When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. (Winston Churchill) [attack/government/time/housing]
• Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. (Winston Churchill) [willpower/truth/time/willpower]
• It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. (Winston Churchill) [mistake/look/time]
• Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down. (Winston Churchill) [time]
• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. (Winston Churchill) [time/time]
• Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. (Marcus Cicero) [time/men/nature]
• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. (Marcus Cicero) [time/wish]
• If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. (John Cleese) [give/time]
• Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. (Charles Caleb Colton) [death/time]
• Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man. (Charles Caleb Colton) [time/day/men/willpower]
• Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. (Charles Caleb Colton) [time]
• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. (Charles Caleb Colton) [truth/time/humility]
• In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. (Charles Caleb Colton) [time]
• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ( Confucius) [time]
• Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ( Confucius) [willpower/time]
• To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. (Joseph Conrad) [time/words/more]
• A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. (Joseph Conrad) [destruction/time]
• Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. (Bill Cosby) [more/music/time/child]
• Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. (Morarji Desai) [life/time/life/time]
• I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time... (Charles Dickens) [order/time]
• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. (Charles Dickens) [nature/time/morning/night]
• Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust. (Charles Dickens) [change/change/time/dust]

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