time quotes

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”

— Dean Acheson

“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

— Dale Carnegie

“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.”

— John Barrymore

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time." ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.”

— Stephen Hawking

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”

— Stephen Hawking

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ”

— Horace

“Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. ”

— Horace

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. ”

— Horace

“Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. ”

— Horace

“I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. ”

— Horace

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”

— Coco Chanel

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! ”

— Coco Chanel