Time Quotes ( 130 - 140 of 171 )
Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,
read more
Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,
Toil without recompense--tears all in vain,
Take them and give me my childhood again.
I have grown weary of dust and decay,
Weary of sowing for others to reap;
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.
Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight;
Make me a child again just for tonight.
Mother, read more
Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight;
Make me a child again just for tonight.
Mother, come back from the echoeless shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore.
The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
Why slander we the times?
What crimes
Have days and years, that we
Thus read more
Why slander we the times?
What crimes
Have days and years, that we
Thus charge them with iniquity?
If we would rightly scan,
It's not the times are bad, but man.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in
which time is being inscribed.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in
which time is being inscribed.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
Laurel crowned Horatius
True, how true the saying,
Swift as wind flies over us
read more
Laurel crowned Horatius
True, how true the saying,
Swift as wind flies over us
Time devouring, slaying.
[Lat., Lauriger Horatius
Quam dixisti verum;
Fugit curo citius
Tempus edax rerum.]
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter read more
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
