time quotes

• Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. (Doris Lessing) [science/time]
• There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move. (David Letterman) [time]
• People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [people/time]
• You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln) [fool/people/time/people]
• I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. (Abraham Lincoln) [time/america/willpower]
• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. (Abraham Lincoln) [time/thinking]
• You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln) [fool/people/time/fool]
• Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. (Abraham Lincoln) [time]
• Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite. (Abraham Lincoln) [quarrel/time/take/loss]
• Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [men/time]
• Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [time/idleness]
• It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [time/thing/right]
• Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. (Amy Lowell) [time/greed/give]
• What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. (James Lowell) [security/time]
• Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime. (James Lowell) [time/crime]
• We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need. (Thomas Mann) [chaos/absolute/time]
• I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. (Groucho Marx) [find/television/time]
• No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early. (Groucho Marx) [time]
• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andre Maurois) [more/habit/time/form]
• While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world. (Carson McCullers) [time]
• For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. (Margaret Mead) [time/being]
• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time. (Margaret Mead) [life/right/time]
• Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals. (H. L. Mencken) [time/morals]
• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier. (H. L. Mencken) [men/time/women/thing]
• Time stays, we go. (H. L. Mencken) [time]
• The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life. (Henry Miller) [life/life/time/time]
• Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration. (Henry Miller) [reality/reality/time/death]
• Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. (John Milton) [prudence/virtue/time]
• How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! (John Milton) [time/youth]
• With thee conversing I forget all time. (John Milton) [forget/time]
• I have been on a calendar, but never on time. (Marilyn Monroe) [time]

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