Time

"Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."

"Che'l perder tempo a chi più sa più spiace."

": The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time."

"Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!… his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes."

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day and the race a life."

"Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling."

"When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray."

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."

"(Time) with his silent sickle."

"And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass."

"Who well lives, long lives: for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years, daies and hours."

"Let us leave hurry to slaves."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

"Dilatio damnum habet, mora periculum."

": Procrastination brings loss, delay danger."

"The four eights, that ideal of operative felicity, are here (New Zealand) a realized fact."

"I count my time by times that I meet thee; These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons, And nights, these are my old moons and my new moons. Slow fly the hours, fast the hours flee, If thou art far from or art near to me: If thou art far, the bird's tunes are no tunes; If thou art near, the wintry days are Junes."

"So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit."

": Thus at Time's humming loom I ply."

"Ein stiller Geist ist Jahre lang geschäftig; Die Zeit nur macht die feine Gährung kräftig."

": Long is the calm brain active in creation; Time only strengthens the fine fermentation."

"Mein Vermächtniss, wie herrlich weit und breit; Die Zeit ist mein Vermächtniss, mein Acker ist die Zeit."

": My inheritance, how wide and fair Time is my estate; to Time I'm heir."

"Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element."

": Time is itself an element."

"Rich with the spoils of time."

"I made a posy while the day ran by; Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band. But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, * And wither'd in my hand."

"Thus times do shift; each thing his turne does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."

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

"But what says the Greek? "In the morning of life, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.""

"Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Ætas: carpe diem."

": While we are speaking envious time will have fled. Seize the present day."

"Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero."

": Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow."

"Eheu fugaces Postume, Postume, Labuntur anni, nec pietas moram Rugis et instanti senectæ Afferet, indomitæ que morti."

": Postumus, Postumus, the years glide by us: Alas! no piety delays the wrinkles, Nor the indomitable hand of Death."

"Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?"

": What does not destructive time destroy?"

"Singula de nobis anni prædantur euntes."

": Each passing year robs us of some possession."

"Horæ Memento cita mors venit, aut victoria læta."

": In the hour's short space comes swift death, or joyful victory."

"How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!"

"To the true teacher, time's hour-glass should still run gold-dust."

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

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

"The continuing evolution of our idea of time is revealed by the increasing importance of tense in the development of language. Greater knowledge of the universe has been accompanied by greater appreciation of the distinction between past, present, and future as people have learned to transcend the limitations of 'the eternal present'. Although our awareness of time is based on psychological factors and on physiological processes below the level of consciousness, ...it is also dependent on social and cultural influences. Because of these, there is a reciprocal relation between time and history. For, just as our idea of history is based on that of time, so time as we conceive it is a consequence of our history."

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal."

"Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future."

"Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's."