Time Quotes - Page 31

• Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Duration

  William Law (1740). “An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels”, p.110

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• When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom Of Speech, Revolution, Rebellious

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• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Doris Lessing

  Birthday, Years, Confusion

  The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

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• Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

  Doris Lessing

  Space, Fiction, Dialect

  The Guardian (London), November 7, 1988.

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• Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Anger, Dark, Society

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• Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Eyelashes, Long, Age

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• Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.97

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• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Reality, Age

  1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

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• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Men

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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Science, Scientist, Relation

  "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844". Book by Karl Marx, "Relative and Absolute Surplus Value", 1932.

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• Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

  Karl Marx

  Science, Men, Scientist

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”, Intl Pub

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• Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Birthday, Age, Different

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Lost Youth, Age, Illusion

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.164, Diversion Books

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• Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Beautiful, Years, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Art

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• Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

  Herman Melville

  Insomnia, Men, Age

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.29.

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• The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

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• That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Success, Work, Science

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.202, Hackett Publishing

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• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Fate, Literature, Terrible

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• How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

  Jack Nicklaus

  People, Age, Tools

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• Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Learning, Tasks, May

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• Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Friendship, Flower

  Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

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• We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

  Laurence Olivier

  Kings, Politician, Cardinals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Political Language, Defense

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

  George Orwell

  Children, Humorous, Eye

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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