Great Throughts Treasury

"Bewail lost time far more than gold in store. ‘For chattels lost may yet recovered be, but time lost ruins us for aye, says he. It will not come again, once it has fled... Let’s not grow moldy thus in idleness." - Geoffrey Chaucer

"One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time." - G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Time touches all things with destroying hand." - Charles Waddell Chestnutt

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." -

"The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. We learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty." -

"Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then a third time - a tremendous whack." -

"Knowing the reality and certainty of death reminds us that we do not have time to be casual or thoughtless with our lives. We only have time to live." - Sarah Cirese

"The time, the people, and the individual converge only once." - Hélène Cixous

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which have always become ugly with time." - Jean Cocteau

"It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change." -

"God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best." - Robert Collyer

"There is never enough time to say our last word - the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt." - Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." - Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

"No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war." - Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

"It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all time, in the wide-spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found stamped on the laws of nature by the indelible seal of the Almighty's will." - James Fenimore Cooper

"It has been well stated "that the pioneer is a creature not of time but of spirit."" - Myers Y. Cooper, fully Myers Young Cooper

"Each generation of Americans has outstripped its parents in education, in literacy, and in economic attainment. For the first time in the history of our country, the educational skills of one generation will not surpass, will not equal, will not even approach those of their parents." - Paul Copperman

"Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing." - William Cowper

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another." -

"It takes a long time to understand nothing." - Edward Dahlberg

"Holding-in creates horrid poisons which wear us out before our time. There are more deaths caused by ingrown, suppurating self-control than the medical profession know of." - Robertson Davies

"When man substituted God for the Great Goddess he at the same time substituted authoritarian for humanistic values." - Elizabeth Gould Davis

"As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered, which can seldom or never be fitted into creeds that are changeless." - Clarence Shepard Day, Jr.

"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. " - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, fully Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley

"A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world - if only from time to time." - Anne Dillard

"People are commonly so employed in pointing out faults in those before them, as to forget that some behind may at the same time be descanting on their own." - Lewis Dilwyn, fully Monsignor Dilwyn W Lewis

"Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon human intercourse." - Isak Dinesen, pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Diogenes Laërtius, aka "Diogenes the Cynic"

"There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come." - Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen

"Men who are wise are wise in time." - W. H. Dixon, fully William Henry Dixon

"Some people, in working toward a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to reexamine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with a more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it." - Fitzhugh Dodson

"Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life." - Henry Latham Doherty

"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For these pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find something that all would believe and worship; what is essential is that all may be together in it. This craving for community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity form the beginning of time. For the sake of common worship they’ve slain each other with the sword. They have set up gods and challenged one another, “Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!”" - Fyodor Dostoevsky, fully Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky or Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski

"Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling." - John William Draper

"Time revealeth all things." - Thomas Draxe

"If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time - not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day." - Thomas Dreier

"If a conference lasts a long time, it must end in peace; no one can keep on defying his enemies all day." - Alfred Duggan

"It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it." - Benjamin Minge Duggar

"Great ideas have such radiant strength. They cross space and time like avalanches: they carry along with them whatever they touch. They are the only riches that one shares without ever dividing them." - Georges Duhamel, Pen name Denis Thevenin

"They teach us to remember; why not teach us to forget? There is not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted that memory was as much of a curse as a blessing." - Francis Alexander "F.A." Durivage, wrote under pen name "Old Un"

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice; but for those who love, Time is Eternity." - Henry Van Dyke, fully Henry Jackson Van Dyke

"The time has come when we must hope our children and their children ad infinitum will want from life more than material success. They must have enough of that to ensure a roof, clothing, food and some recreation, but, if we are to survive for another two hundred years, we must change our way of life." - India Edwards

"Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying, as if vainly attempting to overtake time that has been lost." - Tyron Edwards

"Do not pride yourself on the few great men who, over the centuries, have been born on your earth through no merit of yours. Reflect, rather, on how you have treated them at the time, and how you have followed their teachings." - Albert Einstein

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment may at any time prove me wrong." - Albert Einstein

"Some political and social activities of the Catholic Church are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole... [e.g.] the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation [is] a serious obstacle to peace." - Albert Einstein

"Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time." - Queen Elisabeth of Roumania, Elisabetha Charlotte Josephine Alexandra Victoria NULL

"Progress in industry depends very largely on the enterprise of deep-thinking men, who are ahead of the time in their ideas." - William Ellis

"With the seizing of the means of production by society, production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer. Anarchy in social production is replaced by plan-conforming, conscious organization. The struggle for individual existence disappears... Only from that time will man himself, with full consciousness, make his own history - only from that time will the social causes set in movement by him have, in the main and in a constantly growing measure, the results intended by him. It is the ascent of man from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom." - Friedrich Engels

"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be some time. Let is first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen." -