Time quotes

“In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.” Bertrand Russell

“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” Bertrand Russell

“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.” Bertrand Russell

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

“Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.” Bertrand Russell

“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

“A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.” Bill Cosby

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” Bill Cosby

“Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'” Bill Cosby

“I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.” Bill Cosby

“When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.” Bill Cosby

“I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.” Bill Cosby

“Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.” Ingrid Bergman

“Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.” Ingrid Bergman

“Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.” Ingrid Bergman

“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.” Simone de Beauvoir

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” William Blake

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” William Blake

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.” Francis Bacon

“Friends are thieves of time.” Francis Bacon

“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.” Francis Bacon

“A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.” Francis Bacon

“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.” Francis Bacon

“Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.” Francis Bacon

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.” Francis Bacon

“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.” Francis Bacon

“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.” Francis Bacon

“As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.” Francis Bacon

“It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.” David Bowie

“The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.” David Bowie