Belief

": Time glides by with constant movement, not unlike a stream. For neither can a stream stay its course, nor can the fleeting hour."

"Assiduo labuntur tempora motu, Non secus ad flumen. Neque enim consistere flumen. Nec levis hora potest."

": Time glides by, and we grow old with the silent years; and the days flee away with no restraining curb."

"Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis; Et fugiunt fræno non remorante dies."

": Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next."

"Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus, Et certam præsens vix habet hora fidem."

": Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; nor can the hour which has gone by return."

"Nec, quæ præteriit, iterum revocabitur unda: Nec, quæ præteriit, hora redire potest."

": In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit."

"Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci; Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi."

": While I am speaking the hour flies."

"Dum loquor hora fugit."

": Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream."

"Labitur occulte, fallitque volubilis ætas, Ut celer admissis labitur amnis aquis."

"For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth."

"Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth."

"A wonderful stream is the river of Time As it runs through the realms of tears, With a faultless rhythm and musical rhyme, And a broader sweep and a surge sublime, And blends with the ocean of years."

"Time softly there Laughs through the abyss of radiance with the gods."

": Time is the sovereign physician of our passions."

"Le temps … souverain médecin de nos passions."

"Time will run back and fetch the age of gold."

"Time, eftsoon will tumble All of us together like leaves in a gust, Humbled indeed down into the dust."

"When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead."

"Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?"

"However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time."

"Time is a feathered thing, And, whilst I praise The sparkling of thy looks, and call them rays, Takes wing, Leaving behind him as he flies An unperceivèd dimness in thine eyes."

"The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh."

"Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time."

"But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near."

": Time stands with impartial law."

"Æquo stat fœdare tempus."

": The hours fly around in a circle."

"Volat hora per orbem."

"What we want, we have for our pains The promise that if we but wait Till the want has burned out of our brains, Every means shall be present to state; While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold, While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old, When we've matched our buttons the pattern is sold, And everything comes too late—too late."

"A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought."

"Alas! it is not till Time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of human passion with, from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number."

"Time is the Life of the Soul."

"Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations."

": Better late than never."

"Potius sero quam nunquam."

"Twenty ages sunk in eternal night. They are without movement, without light, and without noise."

"Vingt siècles descendus dans l'éternelle nuit. Y sont sans mouvement, sans lumière et sans bruit."

"That old bald cheater, Time."

"Time, which strengthens Friendship, weakens Love."

": Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return."

"Memento semper finis, et quia perditum non redit tempus."

"Time's waters will not ebb nor stay."

"The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing"

"Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven."

"And panting Time toil'd after him in vain."