Our Time Quotes

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.