time quotes

“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”

— Coco Chanel

“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. ”

— Coco Chanel

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. ”

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. ”

“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. ”

“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”

“Friends show their love in times of trouble. ”

“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. ”

“One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.”

“To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.”

“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”

— Honore de Balzac

“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”

— Honore de Balzac

“But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”

— Honore de Balzac

“What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?”

— Honore de Balzac

“We die only once, and for such a long time.”

“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”

— Aldous Huxley

“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. ”

— Aldous Huxley

“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Laws are silent in time of war. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In time of war the laws are silent. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The 'good old times' - all times when old are good. ”

“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. ”

“It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.”

“The busy have no time for tears.”

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