time

The same costume will be Indecent†10 years before its time Shameless†5 years before its time Outre¤   (daring)†1year before its time Smart Dowdy†1year after its time Hideous†10 years after its time Ridiculous†20 years after its time Amusing†30 years after its time Quaint†50 years after its time Charming†70 years after its time Romantic†100 years after its time Beautiful†150 years after its time.

—Laver,James

My object all sublime I shall achieve in timeö To let the punishment fit the crime.

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

The advantage of time and place in practical actions is half the victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.

—Drake, Sir Francis

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

There is no antidote against the opium of time.

—Browne, SirThomas

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

—Mitchell, Margaret

What ismorality inany given time or place? It iswhat the majority thenand therehappento like, and immorality is what they dislike.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

Aphorismsgive you more for your time and money than any other literary form.Only the poem comes near to it, but then most good poems either start off from an aphorism orarrive at one† Aphorisms and epigrams are the corner-stones of literaryart.

—Dudek, Louis

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.

—Wyman,Jane originally  SarahJane Fulks

The poet shares with other artists the faculty of seeing things as though for the first time.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

—Hupfeld, Herman

The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

—Whitman,Walt(er)

Sin duda la cercan|¤a de la muerte y la fraternidad de las armas producen, en todos los tiempos y en todos los pa|¤ses, una atmo¤  sfera propicia a lo extraordinario, a todo aquello que sobrepasa la condicio¤  n humana y rompe el c|¤rculo de soledad que rodea a cada hombre. No doubt the nearness of death and the brotherhood of men-at-wars, at whatever time and in whatever country, always produce an atmosphere favorable to the extraordinary, to all that rises above the human condition and breaks the circle of solitude that surrounds each one of us.

—Paz, Octavio

At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

—Kelvin,WilliamThomson, 1st Baron

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

—Bankhead,Tallulah

The madman bum and angel beat inTime, unknown, yet putting down here what might be left to say in time come after death.

—Ginsberg, Allen

Because it saves time.

—Lerner, AlanJay

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

—Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

The best time to listen to a politician is when he is on a street corner, in the rain, late at night, when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

—White,Theodore H(arold)

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time Is wetter water, slimier slime!

—Brooke, Rupert Chawner

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

All books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

—Ruskin,John

There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

—Spenser, Edmund

Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

—Tennyson

Britain has lived for too long on borrowed time, borrowed money, and even borrowed ideas.

—Baron

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

—O Henry pseudonym of  William Sydney Porter

He was not of an age, but for all time!

—Jonson, Ben

Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.

—Tennyson

By the time you say you're his, Shivering and sighing And he vows his passion is Infinite, undyingö Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert of time and space.

—Dal|¤  , Salvador

Sur les ailes duTemps la tristesse s'envole. Grief is carried off by the wings of time.

—La Fontaine,Jean de

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

—Kandinsky,Wassily

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

It isclosing time inthegardens oftheWest and fromnow on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

—Connolly, Cyril Vernon

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's lifewhenhehas a ragingdesiretogosomewhereand dig for hidden treasure.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

—Milton,John

The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.

—Cantillon, Richard

Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime¤  , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume¤  . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.

—Labe¤  , Louise

We are cursed,Waldo, born cursed from the time our mothersbring usintotheworld tilltheshroudsare puton us.

—Iron

   In a dark time the eye begins to see.

—Rogers,Will

Counting the slow heart beats, The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats, Wakeful they lie.

—Graves, Robert von Ranke

On ne meurt qu'une fois, et c'est pour si longtemps! We only die once; and it's for such a long time!

—Molie'  re,Jean Baptiste Poquelin

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeöor never.

—Baker,James Addison, III

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

—Dean,John

Many things are unspoken In the life of a man, and with a place there is an unspoken love also in undercurrents, drifting, waiting its time.

—Morgan, Edwin George

It mattersnot howa mandies,but how helives.Theact of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Sir Henry Wotton†was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which he would say,'it was anemployment forhisidletime†a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.'

—Walton, Izaak

The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and bydisclosing them, to makethemthe common property of the nation.

—TheTimes

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labour, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough togo right on inthesame way for numerous more months.

—Ward, Artemus pseudonym of  Charles Farrar Browne

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

—Stevens,Wallace

Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

—Blake,William

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

—Parkinson, C(yril) Northcote

The Fire Next Time.

—Baldwin,James Arthur

Political economy (the economyof a State, orofcitizens) consists simply in the production, preservation, and distribution, at fittest time and place, of useful or pleasurable things.

—Ruskin,John

Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of ecstasy, The secrets of th'abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: 370 The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

—Gray,Thomas

You can fool some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.

—Lincoln, Abraham

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

—Uttley, Alison

A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

—Tennyson

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

—Tennyson

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse'  d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!

—Keats,John

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

—McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall

  That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge.

—Milton,John

It's full time work being on social security. They really make you earn your living.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

—Faulkner,William Harrison

A Good Time was Had By All.

—Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)

Headstones stagger under great draughts of time after heads pass out, and their world must reel speechless, blind in the end about its chilling star

—Berryman,John originally John Allyn Smith

Parliaments are the great lie of our time.

—Pobedonostsev, Constantin Petrovich

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

—Rossetti, Christina Georgina

There's a gude time coming.

—Scott, Sir Walter

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

—Kennan, George Frost

Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime,ö A rose-red cityö'half as old asTime'!

—Burgon,JohnWilliam

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half the time.

—White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. MonsieurTallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest.

—Marlborough,John Churchill, 1st Duke of

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves.

—Powell, Anthony Dymoke

Salud, Dinero, Amor†yTiempo. Health,Wealth, Love†and Time to enjoy them.

—Anonymous

It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

—Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams

Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.

—Bach, Richard

Il est grand temps de rallumer les e¤  toiles. It's high time we relit the stars.

—Kostrowitzki

Ich bin Schriftsteller von Beruf. Ich versuche, gegen die vergehende Zeit anzuschreiben, damit dasVergangene nicht unbekannt bleibt. I am a writer by profession. I seek in my writing to hold back time so that the past is not forgotten.

—Grass, Gu«  nter Wilhelm

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunderöeverlastingly.

—Wordsworth,William

   Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

—Spenser, Edmund

Hurry up please it's time.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

I am just going outside and may be some time. See Scott 722:82.

—Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

   A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no manwould be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

—Rostand,Jean

That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

—Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

—Blake,William

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

In reality, killing time Is only the name for another of the multifarious ways By whichTime kills us.

—Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

—Smollett,Tobias George

Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

—Pascal, Blaise

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

—Kyd,Thomas

   I hope in time 'twill grow into a custom That noblemen shall come with cap and knee To purchase a night's lodging of their wives. 895

—Webster,John

For I spend all my time going about trying to persuade you, young and old, to make your first and chief concern not for your bodies nor for your possessions, but for the highest welfare of your souls, proclaiming as Igo,Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

—Plato

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

—Sterne, Laurence

My life was a strange one that summer, the last summer of its kind there was ever to be. I was riding high on sex and self-esteemöit was my time, my belle e¤  poqueö but allthewhilewith a faintflickerofcalamity, likeflames around a photograph, something seen out of the corner of the eye.

—Hollinghurst, Alan

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

—Cory,William originally  WilliamJohnson

Finnegans Wake took him seventeen years to write, a length of time that suggests an elaborate hobby rather than a passionate desire to create something.

—Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)

But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquerTime.'

—Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

—Daniel, Samuel

O waly, waly up the bank, And waly, waly doun the brae, And waly, waly yon burn-side Where I and my love wont to gae. I lean'd my back unto an aik, I thocht it was a trustie tree; But first it bow'd, and syne it brakeö Sae my true love did lichtlie me. O waly, waly, gin love be bonnie A little time while it is new; But when 'tis auld it waxeth cauld And fades awa' like morning dew. O wherefore should I busk my heid, O wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true love has me forsook, And says he'll never lo'e me mair.

—Ballads

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

—Peter, LaurenceJ

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

—Stein, Gertrude

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

—Clare,John

L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au c½ur. Love is space and time made tender to the heart.

—Proust, Marcel

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

Ceux qui emploient mal leur temps sont les premiers a'   se plaindre de sa brie'  vete¤  . Those who make poor use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

—La Bruye'  re,Jean de

The man is killing timeöthere's nothing else.

—Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr

Il est l'heure de s'enivrer! Pour n'e"  tre pas les esclaves martyrise¤  s duTemps, enivrez-vous sans cesse! De vin, de poe¤  sie ou de vertu, a'   votre guise. This is the time for drunkenness! Be not the martyred slaves of Time, drink without stopping! Drink wine, poetry, or virtue, as you please.

—Baudelaire, Charles

   We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

—Shaw, George Bernard

The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos.

—1st Baron

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

—Lardner Bursiquot

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

—Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

At once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has ever been devised.

—Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to th'angelic symphony.

—Milton,John

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

—Burns, Robert

Hethat inhisstudieswhollyapplieshimselftolabourand exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time, and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labour and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.

—Confucius or K'ung Fu-tse,'The MasterK'ung'

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there isno place for industry; becausethe fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

—Hobbes,Thomas

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, öDrawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, öEach with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win öSome flaming, fatal climax with their lives. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin öThey think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives.

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

—Buchwald, Art

They say: 'There is nothing but our present life; we die, and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us.'Of that they have no knowledge; they merely conjecture.

—The Koran

La vraie e¤  loquence se moque de l'e¤  loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has no time foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

—Pascal, Blaise

Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.

—A'Ghobhainn

Whena mangoesinforpolitics over here, hehasnotime to labour, and any man that labours has no time to fool with politics.Over there, politics is an obligation; over here it's a business.

—Rogers,Will

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market†hares have no time to read.

—Brookner, Anita

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

—Davies,W(illiam) H(enry)

Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverableö the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

—Purdy, Al

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

—Austen,Jane

For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now istheaccepted time; behold, now isthe dayof salvation.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

—Herrick, Robert

Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

—Marvell, Andrew

We met at nine öWe met at eight I was on time öNo, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.

—Lerner, AlanJay

For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain'the sublime' In the old sense.Wrong from the startö No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.

—Pound, Ezra Loomis

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

—Masefield,John Edward

It haunts me, the passage of time. I think time is a mercilessthing.Ithink life is a process of burning oneself out and timeisthefirethat burnsyou.But Ithink thespirit of man is a good adversary.

—Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier

My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.Go home and have a nice, quiet sleep. See also Disraeli 277:85.

—Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville

   [Plays that would] cut through time like a knife through a layer cake or a road through a mountain revealing its geologic layers.

—Miller, Arthur

There isplentyof timetowinthisgame, and tothrashthe Spaniards too.

—Drake, Sir Francis

   Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

—Didion,Joan

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

—Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

—Malamud, Bernard

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

—Lamb, Charles

Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call countryants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

—Donne,John

History is hard to know†but†it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the timeöand which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

—Thompson, Hunter S(tockton)

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

—McGonagall,William

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

—Muir, Edwin

There is nothing to it.You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

—Bach,Johann Sebastian

The darkness crumbles awayö It is the same old druid Time as ever.

—Rosenberg, Isaac

Il n'y a qu'un journal qui puisse venir de¤  poser au me"  me moment dans mille esprits la me"  me pense¤  e. Only a newspaper can place at the same time in a thousand minds the same thought.

—Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de

Je me cherche a'   travers les sie'  cles et je ne me vois nulle part. I have searched for myself across time and have not found myself anywhere.

—Cixous, He¤  le'  ne

   Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

—Jonson, Ben

   The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarilyöperhaps not possiblyöchronological† It isthe continuousthread of revelation.

—Welty, Eudora

She's the original good time who was had by all.

—Davis, Bette originally Ruth Elizabeth Davis

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

He hath shook hands with time.

—Ford,John

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

—Dryden,John

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

—Aristotle

Meanwhile, we too admit that the present is an important time† We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wiselyadjust our own position in it.

—Carlyle,Thomas

O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

—Tennyson

There was nothing noble-minded men could not do when they discovered they could slap time on their wrists just like that.

—Kincaid,Jamaica originally Elaine Potter Richardson

   How slow and still the time did drag along.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

—Steinbeck,John Ernest

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

—Rogers,Will

Hisfacewearing thefixityof athoughtful child'swho has felt the pricks of life somewhat before his time.

—Hardy,Thomas

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

—Carlyle,Thomas

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

—Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

—Koestler, Arthur

Underall speech there lies a silencethat isbetter. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow asTime.

—Carlyle,Thomas

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

—Galsworthy,John

We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.

—Lowenthal, Leo

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

—Gray,Thomas

   Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!öWho pulls me down?ö See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.

—Marlowe, Christopher

Birds buildöbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

—Blake,William

We were obsessed by the feeling that this was the supreme cause of our time. The cause of poets and of writers.The cause of freedom. And that unlessthe cause of anti-Fascism was won, unless Fascism was defeated, we would be unable to exist as writers.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

Midwinter Spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

   Take a little timeöcount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

—Schweitzer, Albert

:That passed the time. : It would have passed in any case. :Yes, but not so rapidly.

—Beckett, Samuel

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

—Heywood,Thomas

Poetryisnotanexpressionofthepartyline.It'sthattimeof night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

—Ginsberg, Allen

So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.

—Herrick, Robert

Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place† The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose whichwe find it actually toanswer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.

—Paley,William

That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.

—Bold, Alan

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;ö Turn whereso'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

—Wordsworth,William

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.

—Fuller, Roy Broadbent

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

—Loos, Anita

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

—Rich, Adrienne Cecile

   This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

The day consists of twenty-four hours only. This regulates the size of the house and the ro"  le it has to fulfil. For the twenty-four hour day is short, and our acts and thoughts are spurred on by time. If we were taught to regard the hand of the clock as a beneficent but implacable god, we should order our lives more rationally.

—Le Corbusier pseudonym of  Charles EŁ  douard Jeanneret

Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

—Birney, Earle

Only through time time is conquered.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Observe that it is a grave error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

—Pissarro, Camille

And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow. Be near me when the sensuous frame Is racked with pains that conquer trust; And Time, a maniac scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame.

—Tennyson

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

—Bible (Old Testament)

What use the green river, the gold place, if time and death pinned human in the pocket of my land not rest from taking underground the green all-willowed and white rose and bean flower and morning-mist picnic of song in pepper-pot breast of thrush?

—Frame,Janet Paterson also known as Jean PatersonFrame

The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

—More, SirThomas

Time and the bell have buried the day, The black cloud carries the sun away.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villagesölocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backöso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

—Coupland, Douglas

   Each human spirit is immortalöfor time cannot destroy

—Murphy, Dervla

Le temps qui change les e"  tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde¤  e d'eux. Although time changes people, it cannot change the image we have already made of them.

—Proust, Marcel

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

—Greene, Robert

There's time enough for everything in the Never-Never.

—Gunn,Jeannie known as Mrs Aeneas Gunn

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

Le temps vole et m'emporte malgre¤   moi; j'ai beau vouloir le retenir, c'est lui qui m'entra|"ne; et cette pense¤  e me fait grande peur: vous devinez a'   peu pre'  s pourquoi. Time flies and takes me with it despite my efforts; I'd like to hold it back, but it keeps dragging me along and this thought frightens me greatly: you can perhaps guess why.

—Se¤  vigne¤  , Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de

   And meanwhiletime goes about its immemorial workof making everyone look and feel like shit.

—Amis, Martin Louis

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas,Time stays, we go.

—Dobson, (Henry) Austin

A message came on the wireless for me. It said: ''. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May18th,1942.

—Peniakoff,Vladimir

   'The time has come,'the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things: Of shoesöand shipsöand sealing-waxö Of cabbagesöand kingsö And why the sea is boiling hotö And whether pigs have wings.'

—Dodgson

Die Zeit hat inWirklichkeit keine Einschnitte, es gibt kein Gewitter oder Drommetenget o« n beim Beginn eines neuen Monats oder Jahres, und selbst bei dem eines neuen S a« kulums sind es nur wir Menschen, die schieÞen und l a« uten. Timehasno divisionstomark its passage, there isnevera thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

—Mann,Thomas

Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

—Larkin, Philip Arthur

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

—Thomas, Dylan Marlais

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or notöa fool among fools or a fool alone.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it,Time in hours, days, years Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved.

—Vaughan, Henry

And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

—Douglas, Gavin

O douleur! o"   douleur! LeTemps mange ma vie. Oh pain! Oh pain! time is eating away my life.

—Baudelaire, Charles

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to a greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

—Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)

  Time is money.

—Franklin, Benjamin

You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure, That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves† The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or abject submission.We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

—Washington, BookerTaliaferro

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

—Banks, Iain Menzies

One cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

—Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)

   But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

—Milton,John

   Time is the101st Senator†the ally of the people who want to do nothing.

—Dodd, ChristopherJ

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Time is the great physician.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

I didn't go to the moon, I went much furtheröfor time is the longest distance between two places.

—Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier

Die Zeit ist das Element der Erz a« hlung, wie sie das Element des Lebens ist,öunl o« sbar damit verbunden, wie mit den K o« rpern im Raum. Sie ist auch das Element der Musik, als welche die Zeit misst und gliedert, sie kurzweilig und kostbar auf einmal macht. For time is the medium of narration, as it is the medium of life. Both are inextricably bound up with it, as are bodies in space. Similarly, time is the medium of music; music divides, measures, articulates time, and can shorten it, yet enhance its value, both at once.

—Mann,Thomas

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

—Walcott, Derek Alton

But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.

—Raine, Craig Anthony

Dead echoes! But I knew her body there, Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet's wing, laid on her hair.

—Crane, (Harold) Hart

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit inthe face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny,Time, Love, Beauty†what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off-key perhaps, but I will sing.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

—Arnold, Matthew

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

—White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

—Whitman,Walt(er)

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

—Rich, Adrienne Cecile

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

—Rosenberg, Isaac

Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

   Time rolls his ceaseless course.

—Scott, Sir Walter

Cold inthe earthöand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

—Bronte«  , EmilyJane

Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if therandomelement decreasesthearrow pointstowards the past† I shall usethe phrase'time's arrow'to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

—Eddington, SirArthur Stanley

There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runs time's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.