Time Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Soul, Noble

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

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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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• Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

  Robert Greene

  Heart, Taste, Crave

  c.1589 Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (published 1594), sc.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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• So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Song, Lying, Night

  'Corinna's Going a-Maying'

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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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• Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

  Ralph Hodgson

  Men, One Day, Caravans

  Poems (1917) "Time, You Old Gipsy Man"

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• A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

  Tom Wolfe

  Aeneas, Age, Renaissance

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.46, Macmillan

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• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Learning

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

  Patricia Briggs

  Odd Things, Gone, Moments

  Patricia Briggs (2005). “Raven's Strike”, p.186, Penguin

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• Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Joy, Woe, Praying

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 255

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• Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Details, Stealing, Greedy

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.100, A&C Black

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• Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

  Ben Jonson

  Eye, Mirrors, Nerves

  1600 Every Man out of His Humour, Induction.

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• You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

  Martin Amis

  Fighting, Numbers, Way

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Mar 18, 2012

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• Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, Sports, Night

  'Volpone' (1605) act 3, sc. 5.

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• Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Real, Healing, Past

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Age, Vices

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse' d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!

  John Keats

  Art, Pain, Air

  Ode to Nightingale St. 6 (1820)

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• At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

  Lord Kelvin

  Doe, Energy, Dissipation

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• A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

  George F. Kennan

  Guests, Members, Household

  Of the feeling of being viewed as a pragmatist. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The WiseMen (1986).

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• Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

  Steven Wright

  Sorry, Mind, Venus

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• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Loss, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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• The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perfect, Rose, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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