Hour Quotes

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. (Charles Darwin)
One hour of love has a whole life in it. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. View quote
Horace
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. View quote
Ovid
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. View quote
Gioachino Rossini
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. View quote
Lance Armstrong
Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. View quote
Aphra Behn
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. View quote
William Blake
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. View quote
J. M. Barrie
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. (Andrew Jackson)
One minute decides the outcome of a battle, one hour the success of a campaign, one day the fate of empires. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. View quote
Washington Irving
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on. View quote
Aphra Behn
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour in other words, we are the hero of our own story. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. View quote
Walter Scott
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways I go to die, and you to live. Which is the better, God only knows. View quote
Socrates
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. (Fidel Castro)
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. View quote
Horace Mann
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. View quote
William James
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. View quote
John Ruskin
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