Time Quotes

A loafer always has the correct time.
- Kin Hubbard

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
- Segal’s Law

All great achievements require time.
- Maya Angelou

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.
- Victor Borge

I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It’s been about two months since I’ve worked out. And I just don’t have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.
- Ellen DeGeneres

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
- Bernard Berenson

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
- Marilyn Monroe

If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
- Anonymous

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
- Osbert Sitwell

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter’s Law into account.
- Hofstadter’s Law

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
- Marcus Aurelius Antonius

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
- George Eliot

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life. — (Sometimes a Little Brain Damage Can Help, 1984)
- George Carlin

The days of the digital watch are numbered.
- Tom Stoppard

The obscurest epoch is to-day.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Bertrand Russell

There’s time enough, but none to spare.
- Charles W. Chesnutt

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
- Robert Frost

Time as he grows old teaches all things.
- Aeschylus

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- Aristotle

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
- John Randolph

Time is bunk.
- Douglas Adams

Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg

Time is the only critic without ambition.
- John Steinbeck

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Peter F. Drucker

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
- John Archibald Wheeler

Time may be a great healer, but it’s also a lousy beautician.
- Anonymous

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
- Ivan Turgenev

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
- Euripides

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
- Amy Lowell

Time’s fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.
- Thomas Campion

Time’s fun when you’re having flies. (Kermit the Frog)
- Jim Henson

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
- Marcel Achard

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
- Woody Allen

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon…smart too late.
- Mike Tyson

You can take of a man’s money, but when it’s all said and done, you’ve only taken his money. When you take of a man’s time, you’ve taken a part of his life. I’d like to thank you for giving me a part of your life tonight.
- Wayne Newton

You know, sometimes, when they say you are ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
- George McGovern

You know, sometimes, when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
- George McGovern

Scottish Proverbs

Be happy while you’re living, For you’re a long time dead.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Better bend than break.

Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more.

Get what you can and keep what you have; that’s the way to get rich.

Willful waste makes woeful want.

When the heart is full the tongue will speak.

Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him.

Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight.

Confessed faults are half mended.

They that will not be counselled cannot be helped.

Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Luck never gives; it only lends.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.

Rock and Roll is Alive

Even if it’s said that the Rock&Roll of 60s, when dope was cheap, sex – free, and the rock – great are gone and today videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll, I might be agree and not agree with at the same time. They say: before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.” Our time is discrepant, that’s right but not more or less than it was before and one more tricking demonstration of Rock&Roll is alive is Reading Festival 2009, oldest and very popular place gathering yearly fans of rock, alternative, indie, punk, metal and other styles of music together. Besides that no doubt we have certain advantages over old kind times, I mean scientific and technical progress of course, that allowed us to get wide range things we could hardly ever dream. Today you can buy any tickets online though it were for concerts, theatre, sports, Tickets for Reading Festival or any other live event. Also using Seatwave, this fan-to-fan ticket exchange operating, you have chance to sell or exchange your tickets just for saving your money.

What I would like to do at the end is just to add just some quotes of my favorite musicians, which are really alive till now – Led Zeppelin

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
– Robert Plant, lead singer, Led Zeppelin
I’m not trying to be cosmic, it’s just that everything’s on a roll and that’s how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.
– Robert Plant

My vocal style I haven’t tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
– Robert Plant
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else — building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.– Jimmy Page, guitarist, Led Zeppelin

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs — Early Days — which is what it is — and Latter Days.
– Jimmy Page

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
– Jimmy Page

I always believed in the music we did and that’s why it was uncompromising.
– Jimmy Page

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
– Jimmy Page

Fools and Wise

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

Who are a little wise the best fools be.
John Donne

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
Benjamin Franklin

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Balthasar Gracian

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men — and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even a fool may be wise after the event.
Homer

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
Nikolai Lenin

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Unknown

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Unknown

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
Oscar Hammerstein II

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
John Dalberg Acton

Canada and Canadian

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. Adrienne Clarkson
We only need to look at what we are really doing in the world and at home and we’ll know what it is to be Canadian. Adrienne Clarkson

Stumbling through darkness and racing through light, we have persisted in the creation of a Canadian civilization. Adrienne Clarkson
Patriotism is not dying for one’s country, it is living for one’s contry. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it’s better. Agnes Macphail
I’m no lady. I’m an MP. Agnes Macphail
Canadians can be radical, but they must be radical in their own peculiar way, and that way must be in harmony with our national traditions and ideals. Agnes MacPhail
Canada? I don’t even know what street it’s on. Al ‘Scarface’ Capone
Until I came to Canada I never knew ’snow’ was a four letter word. Alberto Manguel
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Alexander Graham Bell
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Alexander Graham Bell
The term “eh?”- pronounced like a long A – is usually affixed to every sentence out of a Canadian’s mouth, from the sublime (“I love you, eh?”) to the ridiculous (Let’s get married, eh?”) and everything in between (“Gimme a pack of Export, eh?”) Allan Gould
It’s going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it. Andrew H. Malcom
We’ll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us. Andy Barrie
The crisis of Canada today is the combination of economic problems facing us and the increasing impotency of governments that lack either the will or the resources to do much about it. The tragedy of Canada today is that just when we need a country that’s pulling together in common cause, we have one that keeps finding new ways to pull itself apart. Angus Reid
God Bless America, but God help Canada to put up with them! Anonymous
What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie… and then writes his Member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs. Anonymous
Canada is like your attic, you forget that it’s up there, but when you go, it’s like “Oh man, look at all this great stuff!” Anonymous
Canada is like a bird, it likes to soar freely Anonymous
Give me a good canoe, a pair of Jibway snowshoes, my beaver, my family and ten thousand square miles of wilderness and I am happy. Archie Belaney (Grey Owl)
Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad. Arnold Edinborough

New Year Is Here

Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!”

New Year Resolutions Quotes
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
Author Unknown

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
Author Unknown

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.
John Selden

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
George William Curtis

New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
Mark Twain

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre Gide

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
John Burroughs

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.
Joey Adams

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
F.M. Knowles

I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.
Henry Moore

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
Anaïs Nin

New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate

New year, same goal.
Joe King

Travel Quotations

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
Saint Augustine quotes (Ancient Roman Christian Theologian and Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church. 354-430)

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes (Scottish Essayist, Poet and Author of fiction and travel books, 1850-1894)

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.””
agentjade J.R.R. Tolkien quotes (English Writer and Author of richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, 1892-1973)

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust quotes (French Novelist and Author, 1871-1922)

“The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart”

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
Lao Tzu quotes (Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote “Tao Te Ching” (also “The Book of the Way”). 600 BC-531 BC)

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)

“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
George Moore quotes (English Philosopher one of the fathers of the analytic philosophy. 1873-1958)

“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves”
Euripides quotes (Greek playwright, c. 480-406 BC)

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu

“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” –- Hodding Carter

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” — Antoine de St. Exupery

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener

“Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” — Fitzhugh Mullan

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” –- John Steinbeck

“In America, there are two classes of travel: First class, and with children.” — Robert Benchley

‘But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?” — Noel Coward

“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” — Anne Sophie Swetchine

“Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting.” –- Robert Thomas Allen

“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.” — Elizabeth Drew

“If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Will Kommen

“Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” — Samuel Johnson

“Long voyages, great lies.” – Italian proverb

Love and Jealousy

Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway.  ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Never waste jealousy on a real man:  it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.  ~George Bernard Shaw

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.  ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.  ~Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957

He that is not jealous is not in love.  ~St. Augustine

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.  ~Josh Billings

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.  ~Harold Coffin

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.  ~Elizabeth Bowen

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.  ~Spanish Proverb

I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart.  ~Astrid Alauda

Calamities are of two kinds:  misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.  ~Ambrose Bierce

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food.  A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.  ~Maya Angelou

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.  ~Antisthenes

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.  ~Mme. de Puixieux

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.  ~A.R. Orage

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.  ~George Eliot

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.  ~Honore de Balzac

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.  ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Never love unless you can
Bear with all the faults of man:
Men will sometimes jealous be,
Though but little cause they see.
~Thomas Campion, “Never Love”

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse:  envy alone wants both.  ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
~William Shakespeare, Othello

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.  ~Dorothy Dix

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.  ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.  ~Aeschylus

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
~William Shakespeare, Othello

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth.  Each of us has something to give that no one else has.  ~Elizabeth O’Connor

Envy assails the noblest:  the winds howl around the highest peaks.  ~Ovid

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.  ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.  ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.  ~Paul Eldridge

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.  ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.  ~Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.  ~Danish Proverb

Envy slays itself by its own arrows.  ~Author Unknown

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.  ~William Shakespeare

Optimism Quotes

Hal Borland
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it’s turn.

Lucille Ball
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Walter Winchell
Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Robert Browning
My sun sets to rise again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.

Kahlil Gibran
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; they pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Edgar Allan Poe
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

James Russell Lowell
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Peace and War Quotes

We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity’s creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will – and determination – to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.

— Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

It is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries, has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.

— Federico Mayor

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent revolt of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution
of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.

— Bishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980)

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

You can’t say that civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers (1879 – 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929