968 private quotes tagged time

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“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“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
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“No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.”— Ronald Reagan
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“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.”— Thomas J. Watson
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“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.”— Julia Child
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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”— Sigmund Freud
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“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”— Samuel Johnson
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“In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”— Voltaire
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“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”— Will Rogers
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“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”— Blaise Pascal
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“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”— Winston Churchill
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“By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.”— Gore Vidal
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“The time I kill is killing me.”— Mason Cooley
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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“You may delay, but time will not.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”— Maya Angelou