time quotes

“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

“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