Time quotes

“Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.” Sophocles

“How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.” Sophocles

“There is a time when even justice brings harm.” Sophocles

“Old age and the passage of time teach all things.” Sophocles

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.” Victor Hugo

“Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.” Victor Hugo

“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.” Victor Hugo

“It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.” Victor Hugo

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” Victor Hugo

“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.” Victor Hugo

“One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'” Victor Hugo

“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.” Franz Kafka

“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” Franz Kafka

“It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.” Franz Kafka

“The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.” Franz Kafka

“If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.” Willie Nelson

“I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.” Willie Nelson

“I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.” Willie Nelson

“The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.” Fridtjof Nansen

“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.” Jawaharlal Nehru

“Time is the devourer of all things.” Ovid

“Time, motion and wine cause sleep.” Ovid

“At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.” Ovid

“Time, the devourer of all things.” Ovid

“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.” Ovid

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.” Ovid