"Time in its slow, illimitable course Brings all to light and buries all again; Strange things it brings to pass, the dreadest oath Is broken and the stubbornest will is bent."

"Time's tide will smother you … and I will too."

"Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please. But look around, leaves are brown And the sky is a hazy shade of winter."

"Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists..."

"Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second. Then decide what to do with your time."

"Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.""

"The whirligig of time brings in his revenges."

"Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time."

"Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles."

"Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes; Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done."

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours."

"O, call back yesterday, bid time return."

"Time's the king of men, He's both their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave."

"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."

"Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites."

"We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun."

"'Gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion."

"Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."

"If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not; Speak then to me."

"Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides; Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."

"Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!"

"So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate."

"See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live."

"Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop."

"The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite, That ever I was born to set it right!"

"There's a time for all things."

"Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try."

"Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal."

"And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags.""

"Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them."

"The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it."

"Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not forever with thy vailèd lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know'st tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."

"Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time."

"Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light."

"Time is the nurse and breeder of all good."

"Seconds, minutes, hours, they crawl by on hands and knees."

": Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day."

"Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri."

"Contra primus itaque causas pugnare debemus; causa autem iracundiae opinio iniuriae est, cui non facile credendum est. Ne apertis quidem manifestisque statim accedendum; quaedam enim falsa ueri speciem ferunt. Dandum semper est tempus: ueritatem dies aperit."

": An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing."

"Urbes constituit ætas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva."

"Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn."

"The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning."

"When emotion brings us ghosts from the past, only logic can root us in the present."

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"New times demand new measures and new men; The world advances, and in time outgrows The laws which in our father's times were best; And doubtless, after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of truth."

"I think that the timelessness of mathematics has none of the sublimity that it once seemed to me to have, but consists merely in the fact that the pure mathematician is not talking about time. ...I think that we can ...mirror the world, like Leibniz's monads; and I think it is the duty of the philosopher to make himself as undistorting a mirror as he can. ...to recognize such distortions ...Of these, the most fundamental is that we view the world from the here and now, not with that large impersonality which theists attribute to the Deity. To achieve such impartiality is impossible for us, but we can travel a certain distance towards it. To show the road to this end is the supreme duty of the philosopher."

"The arguments for the contention that time is unreal and that the world of sense is illusory must, I think, be regarded as fallacious. Nevertheless there is some sense—easier to feel than to state—in which time is an unimportant and superficial characteristic of reality. Past and future must be acknowledged to be as real as the present, and a certain emancipation from slavery to time is essential to philosophic thought. The importance of time is rather practical than theoretical, rather in relation to our desires than in relation to truth. A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."