Famous Quotes

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

Voltaire on Time

More quotes about Time

• "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

  Roger Babson on Time

• "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

  Abraham Lincoln on Time

• "Lost time is never found again."

  Benjamin Franklin on Time

• "Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

  Jean de La Fontaine on Time

• "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

  C. S. Lewis on Time

More quotes by Voltaire

• "What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

• "He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

• "We are rarely proud when we are alone."

• "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."

• "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."