time quotes

“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”

— Sophocles

“Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. ”

— Sophocles

“Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.”

— Sophocles

“How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. ”

— Sophocles

“There is a time when even justice brings harm.”

— Sophocles

“Old age and the passage of time teach all things.”

— Sophocles

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ”

— Victor Hugo

“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”

— Victor Hugo

“Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.”

— Victor Hugo

“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ”

— Victor Hugo

“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.”

— Victor Hugo

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”

— Victor Hugo

“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”

— Victor Hugo

“One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'”

— Victor Hugo

“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”

— Franz Kafka

“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. ”

— Franz Kafka

“It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. ”

— Franz Kafka

“The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.”

— Franz Kafka

“If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time. ”

— Willie Nelson

“I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.”

— Willie Nelson

“I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone. ”

— Willie Nelson

“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Time is the devourer of all things.”

— Ovid

“Time, motion and wine cause sleep.”

— Ovid

“ At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. ”

— Ovid

“Time, the devourer of all things.”

— Ovid

“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”

— Ovid