"When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time."

Time, Man, Trying

86

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time."

Exlpore more Time quotes

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Best Use, Mind

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Time, Universe, Words

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Time, Poor, Poverty, Questions

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Time, Truth, Wisdom, Change

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

Time, Compassion, Listening, Open

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Time, People, Right

"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Time, Projects, Writer

"Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

Time, Art, Guitar, Now

"I believe I was ahead of my time."

Ike Turner, American Musician

Time,

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Time, Faults, Will

Explore more quotes by Edgar Watson Howe

"Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better."

Success

"The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep."

Man

"A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country."

Religion

"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression."

Faith

"Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism."

Friendship

"Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk."

People

"There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep."

People

86

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Time quotes

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."

"Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time."

"I believe I was ahead of my time."

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."

Explore more quotes by Edgar Watson Howe

"Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better."

"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."

"Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up."

"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."

"The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep."

"A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country."

"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression."

"Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism."

"Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk."

"There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep."