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My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. - Bible, Job (ch. VII, v. 6) He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? - Bible, Matthew (ch. XVI, v. 2-3) For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. - Bible, Psalms (ch. XC, v. 4) For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. - Bible, Psalms (ch. XC, v. 9) For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back. - Bible, Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha) (ch. II, v. 5) Time hurries on with a resistless, unremitting stream, yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, that slides his hand under the miser's pillow and carries off the prize. - Hugh Blair Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., Le temps fuit, et nous traine avec soi: Le moment ou je parle est deja loin de moi.] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Epitres (III, 47) Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion Boucicault What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand? - Rev. James Bramston, Art of Politicks Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it. - Sir Thomas Browne Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things. - Sir Thomas Browne Time sadly overcometh all things, and is now dominant, and sitteth upon a sphinx, and looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. - Sir Thomas Browne Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it. - Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals (pt. III, XXIX) Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. - Art Buchwald Time was made for slaves. - John Baldwin Buckstone, Billy Taylor Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Time is money. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Money (act III, sc. 3) Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them; For he has reached the city of the saintly, The New Jerusalem. - James Drummond Burns, Poem of a Death Believer, in the "Vision of Prophecy" Some wee short hour ayont the twal. - Robert Burns, Death and Mr. Hornbook Nae man can tether time or tide. - Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. - Robert Byrne How slowly time creeps till my Phoebe returns! While amidst the soft zephyr's cool breezes I burn. Methinks if I knew whereabouts he would tread, I could breathe on his wings and 'twould melt down the lead. Fly swifter, ye minutes, bring hither my dear, And rest so much longer for 't when she is here. - John Byrom, A Pastoral Time, the corrector when our judgments err, the test of truth and love; sole philosopher, for all besides are sophists. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) "Where is the world?" cries Young, at eighty. "Where The world in which a man was born?" Alas! Where is the world of eight years past? 'Twas there-- I look for it--'tis gone, a globe of glass Cracked, shivered, vanished, scarcely gazed on ere A silent change dissolves the glittering mass. Statesmen, chiefs, orators, queens, patriots, kings, And dandies, all are gone on the wind's wings. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) The good old times--all times when old are good-- Are gone. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Age of Bronze Displaying page 2 of 18 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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