Time

"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?"

"The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?"

"For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay."

"Time wears all his locks before, Take thou hold upon his forehead; When he flies he turns no more, And behind his scalp is naked. Works adjourn'd have many stays, Long demurs breed new delays."

"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time."

"Too late I staid, forgive the crime, Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flow'rs! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass? Ah! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings?"

"In time take time while time doth last, for time Is no time when time is past."

"Nick of Time!"

"Lauriger Horatius Quam dixisti verum; Fugit euro citius Tempus edax rerum."

"He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them."

"I dimly guess what Time in mists confounds; Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds From the hid battlements of Eternity; Those shaken mists a space unsettle, then Round the half-glimpsed turrets slowly wash again."

"Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: "Even this shall pass away.""

"The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made."

"To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time."

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

"Delivered from the galling yoke of time."

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

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

": 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."

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

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

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

"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 stands with impartial law."

"Æquo stat fœdare tempus."

"That old bald cheater, Time."

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

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

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

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

"[T]ime has nothing to show because time won't give me time."

"We often refer to space as the final frontier. But the older I get, the more I come to believe that the true final frontier is time. In command, as in life, what we do in crisis often weighs upon us less heavily than what we wish we had done, what could have been. Time offers many opportunities, but it rarely offers second chances. And as steps forward go I would like to acknowledge your classmate the first fully Romulan cadet at Starfleet Academy: Elnor. May you all go boldly into a future freed from the shackles of the past."

"Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. There's a wonderful formula that the Buddhists have for the Bodhisattva, the one whose being (sattva) is illumination (bodhi), who realizes his identity with eternity and at the same time his participation in time. And the attitude is not to withdraw from the world when you realize how horrible it is, but to realize that this horror is simply the foreground of a wonder and to come back and participate in it."

"Jean-Luc Picard: Seize today for we know nothing of tomorrow. Laris: Today is glorious. And none of our tomorrows are guaranteed."

"Mr. La Forge, time is one thing we do not have in abundance."

"It's always tea time!"

"Time passed as time ever does when passed monotonously, that is, with a degree of rapidity which only astonishes us when it is recalled to mind by some chance circumstance. Time should he reckoned by events, not hours ; the heart is its truest time-piece, at least as concerns ourselves."

"Seize the time... Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."

"Monday could not have arrived on a worse day. It could have been polite and waited until Tuesday or even Wednesday."

"'I could tell you my adventures — beginning from this morning,' said Alice a little timidly: 'but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.' 'Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle. 'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: 'explanations take such a dreadful time.'"

"“You know what they say about time,” Jacob said idly. “It’s what happens even when nothing else does.”"

"It is the future that creates his present. All is an interminable chain of longing."

"How we remember the past determines the shape of the future."

"The history of a minute — why, it would give a bird's-eye view of every possible variety in human existence. Wonderful the many events that are happening together — life and death — joy and sorrow— the great and the mean — the common and the rare — good and evil — are all in the record of that brief segment of time."

"This hour will pass — all passes, On this life's fleeting scene ; But still the future glasses All that the past has been."

"One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right."

"Time had passed. It will, given half the chance."

"Waiting for the time to pass you by; hope the winds of change will change your mind."

"Dost thou love life? then do not squander time; for that is the stuff life is made of."