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 is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface. Bacon.

Time is money. Pr.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it. Zimmermann.

Time is of more value than type, and the wear and tear of temper than an extra page of index. R. H. Busk.

Time is the chrysalis of eternity. Jean Paul.

Time is the life of the soul. If not this, then tell me what is time? Longfellow.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires. Colton.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. Two 5 Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.

Time is the old Justice that examines all offenders. As You Like It, iv. 1.

Time is the stuff life is made of. Ben. Franklin.