Time Quotes

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

~ Epicurus

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

~ John Florio

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

~ Bertrand Russell

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

~ Alexander Woollcott

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

~ Herb Caen

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

~ Esther Williams

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

~ Terry Pratchett

Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.

~ Patrick Lencioni

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

~ Dean Ornish

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

~ Bonnie Hunt

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

~ Eric Alterman

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

~ John Bercow

In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.

~ Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

~ Erma Bombeck

For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.

~ Lynn Jurich

I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight to the end and I try 100% all the time.

~ Heikki Kovalainen

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

In this industry, you have to have passion. It's tough; there's no mercy. But I just love cars - I love to bring a new car to market. And every time I do this, it gets a little easier.

~ Henrik Fisker

The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.

~ Om Puri

One time, I was posing on a car for a calendar shoot. I was doused with oil and literally slid off the car, bikini, heels and all!

~ Candace Kita

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit.

~ Chris Hemsworth

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

~ Daniel Okrent

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

~ Ken Jennings

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

~ Jackie Stewart

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

~ Fred Durst

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

~ Carroll Shelby

There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

~ Zack Greinke

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

~ Wentworth Miller

I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

~ Mark Haddon

My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn't properly care for it.

~ Mike Birbiglia

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.

~ Kathleen Troia Mcfarland

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I love cars; I like the idea of manufacturing something, having a product, a hard product to sell and promote, but as time went on, I recognized that car companies are so bureaucratic and so ossified that it would take forever to work your way up. And so I went into consulting.

~ Mitt Romney

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.

~ Ian Mckellen