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 the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity. W. v. Humboldt.

Time is trouble and the author of destruction; he seizeth even from afar. Hitopadesa.

Time reposes on eternity; the truly great and 10 transcendental has its basis and substance in eternity; stands revealed to us as eternity in a vesture of time. Carlyle.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: / Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. King Lear, i. 1.

Time, that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Colton.

Time the shuttle drives, but you / Give to every thread its hue, / And elect your destiny. W. H. Burleigh.

Time trieth truth. Pr.

Time was when a Christian used to apologise 15 for being happy. But the day has always been when he ought to apologise for being miserable. Prof. Drummond.

Time wasted is existence; used, is life. Young.

Time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated field, of which a few acres produce more of what is useful to life, than extensive provinces, even of the richest soil, when overrun with weeds and brambles. Hume.