Time Quotes - Page 34

• This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

  Art Buchwald

  Government, Easy, Humorists

  1987 Speech to international meeting of satirists and cartoonists. Reported in the NewYork Times, 28 Jun.

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• Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'!

  John Burgon

  Cities, Rose, Half

  John William Burgon (1846). “Petra, a Poem: To which a Few Short Poems are Now Added”, p.24

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• Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Night, Keys

  1790 'Tam o' Shanter. A Tale'.

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• When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Learning, Tired

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.

  Richard Cantillon

  Crafts, Being The Best, Paid

  1730-4 Essay on the Nature of Trade.

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• The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Weight, Speak

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]

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• In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dream, Lying, Book

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

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• He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

  John Clare

  Tree, Green, Wells

  'The Dying Child'

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• HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

  Douglas Coupland

  Return Back, Years, Historical

  1991 Generation X,'Our Parents Had More'.

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• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Heart, Tears

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1”, p.318

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• Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

  Samuel Daniel

  Brother, Sleep, Eye

  'Sonnets to Delia' (1592) no. 54

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• She's the original good time who was had by all.

  Bette Davis

  Women, Originals, Good Times

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• Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Time Enough for Love "Prelude II" (1973)

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• Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

  Graham Greene

  Space, Strange, Abandonment

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• TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

  Douglas Coupland

  Stupid, Technology, People

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

  Marie Curie

  Work, Responsibility, Science

  "Pierre Curie". Book by Marie Curie translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, 1923.

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• Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opinion, Tomorrow, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.

  Porfirio Diaz

  Ambition, Pride, Bullets

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• Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Night, Texas, Years

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.4, Thomas Wolfe

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• Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

  Charles Dickens

  Twenties, Littles, Five

  1855-7 Mr Meagles. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.16.

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• Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Cat, Funny Cat, Cute Cat

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• Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Benjamin Disraeli's maiden speech in the House of Commons, December 7, 1837.

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• Time is Galleons, little brother.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Littles, Weasley

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.67, Pottermore

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• one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Excellence, Twenties

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• I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

  John Donne

  Running, Fire, Air

  c.1595 Elegies, no.12,'His Parting from Her'.

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