Quotes
Quotes about Time
Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.
The incalculable Up-and-Down of Time.
The little toy-dog is covered with dust
But sturdy and stanch he stands;
And the little toy-soldier is red with rust
And his musket moulds in his hands;
Time was when the little toy-dog was new,
And the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Land of Heart's Desire,
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, Time an endless song.
Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.
Time softly there
Laughs through the abyss of radiance with the gods.
We are young
And we are friends of time.
Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it is n't far from London!)
And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonder-land;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it is n't far from London!)
Oh, I am so old, meseems
I am next of kin to Time.
Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me!
Fear, hope, and longing, at strife,
Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever,
Gathering strength, gaining breath,--naught can sever
Me from the Spirit of Life!
My galligaskins, that have long withstood
The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,
By time subdued (what will not time subdue!),
A horrid chasm disclosed.
In the days when we went gypsying
A long time ago;
The lads and lassies in their best
Were dress'd from top to toe.
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November,
February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one;
Excepting leap year,--that's the time
When February's days are twenty-nine.
"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster.
Many a time,... from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
That saying which I hear commonly repeated,--that time assuages sorrow.
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
Practice in time becomes second nature.
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
We may with advantage at times forget what we know.
