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

Time conquers all, and we must time obey. Pope.

Time consecrates; and what is grey with age becomes religion. Schiller.

Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature. Cic.

Time devours all things. Pr.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid 35 angularity of facts. Emerson.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution. Hitopadesa.

Time elaborately thrown away. Young.

Time gives prudence; the lord of time, inspiration; the one is a reward, the other a gift. Börne.

Time has a strange contracting influence on many a wide-spread fame. Carlyle.

Time has only a relative existence. Carlyle. 40