Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis—Times change, and we change with them. Kaiser Lothar I.

Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; / Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus—A wound may, perhaps, through time be closed, but, when fresh, it shrinks from the touch. Ovid.

Tempted Fate will leave the loftiest star. Byron.

Tempus anima rei—Time is the soul of business.

Tempus edax rerum—Time, the devourer of all 10 things. Ovid.

Tempus erit quo vos speculum vidisse pigebit—The time will come when it will disgust you to look in a mirror. Ovid.

Tempus est quædam pars æternitatis—Time is a certain fraction of eternity. Cic.

Tempus ferax, tempus edax rerum—Time the producer, time the devourer of things.

Tempus fugit—Time flies.

Tempus in agrorum cultu consumere dulce 15 est—It is delightful to spend one's time in the tillage of the fields. Ovid.