"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."

"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."

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

"There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runs time's deer is slain And lies where it has lain."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Singula de nobis anni prædantur euntes."

": What does not destructive time destroy?"

"Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?"

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

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

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

"Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Rich with the spoils of time."

": Time is itself an element."

"Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element."

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

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

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

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

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

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