"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."

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

"Le temps … souverain médecin de nos passions."

"Dum loquor hora fugit."

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

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

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

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

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

"Potius sero quam nunquam."

"Time is the Life of the Soul."

": The hours fly around in a circle."

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

"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?"

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

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

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

": While I am speaking the hour flies."

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

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

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

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

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

"That old bald cheater, Time."

"Time, that aged nurse Rocked me to patience."

"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."

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

": Better late than never."

"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."

"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."

"Volat hora per orbem."

"Æquo stat fœdare tempus."

": Time stands with impartial law."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Time, which strengthens Friendship, weakens Love."