Time Quotes - Page 32

• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Learning, Usual, Letters

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Numbers, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Dream, Morning

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• As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

  Jean Paul

  Birthday, Winter, Age

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• We do not remember days, we remember moments.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Party, Years

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• Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

  William Penn

  Learning, Past, Done

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• Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Past

  1978 In the San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan.

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• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

  Pablo Picasso

  Zero, Children, Growing Up

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Imagination, Noses, Literature

  1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jul.

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• Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Thinking, Age

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• Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

  Jef Raskin

  Funny, Humor, Technology

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 128), 2004.

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• Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Youth, Sensitive, Idle

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Death, Pain

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• Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Judging, Opera, Hearing

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• Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

  Helen Rowland

  Women, Half, Literature

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.86, Lulu.com

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• Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Real, Feelings

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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• The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Fate, Slavery

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.85, Bertrand Russell

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• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Moving, Past

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• So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Giving

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• It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Success, Character

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• Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Squares, Mind, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2009). “The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• What is past is prologue.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, History, Prologue

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [261]

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• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Lying, Men

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [329]

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