"O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? O fearful meditation! where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?"

"Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow."

"Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young."

": No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors."

"Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis."

": The swift hour flies on double wings."

"Volat ambiguis Mobilis alis hora."

"Infinita est velocitas temporis quæ magis apparet respicientibus. The swiftness of time is infinite, which is still more evident to those who look back upon the past."

"Time rolls his ceaseless course."

"Upon my lips the breath of song, Within my heart a rhyme, Howe'er time trips or lags along, I keep abreast with time!"

": Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time."

"Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit."

": Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last: Loitering slow, the Future creepeth— Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth— And motionless forever stands the Past."

"Dreifach ist der Schritt der Zeit: Zögernd kommt die Zukunft hergezogen, Pfeilschnell ist das Jetzt entflogen, Ewig still steht die Vergangenheit."

": You come late, yet you come!"

"Spät kommt ihr—doch ihr kommt!"

"Time flies on restless pinions—constant never. Be constant—and thou chainest time forever."

": Who knows what may be slumbering in the background of time!"

"O, wer weiss Was in der Zeiten Hintergrunde schlummert."

": Day follows on the murkiest night, and, when the time comes, the latest fruits will ripen."

"Tag wird es auf die dickste Nacht, und, kommt Die Zeit, so reifen auch die spät'sten Früchte."

": How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy."

"Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit!"

"To vanish in the chinks that Time has made."

"By many a temple half as old as Time."

"Time, like a flurry of wild rain, Shall drift across the darkened pane!"

"Hour after hour departs, Recklessly flying; The golden time of our hearts Is fast a-dying: O, how soon it will have faded! Joy droops, with forehead shaded; And Memory starts."

"E'en such is time! which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have; And pays us naught but age and dust, Which, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. And from which grave, and earth, and dust, The Lord will raise me up, I trust."

"He briskly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time."

": Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it."

"Dum deliberamus quando incipiendum sit, incipiere jam serum est."

"Expect, but fear not, Death: Death cannot kill, Till Time (that first must seal his patent) will. Would'st thou live long? keep Time in high esteem: Whom gone, if thou canst not recall, redeem."

"Gone! gone forever!—like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being—and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo."

"Time conquers all, and we must time obey."

"From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime Out of Space—out of Time."

": The happier the time, the quicker it passes."

"Tanto brevius omne, quanto felicius tempus."

"Seize time by the forelock."

"His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing."

"Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his."

"Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time."

"The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race, As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves."

"Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night."

"Let time that makes you homely, make you sage."

"These are the times that try men's souls."

": Time is generally the best medicine."

"Temporis ars medicina fere est."

": Time that devours all things."

"Tempus edax rerum."