time quotes

“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.”

“A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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