John Dryden Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

  John Dryden

  Change, Time, Children

  All for Love act 4, sc. 1 (1678)

• Love and Time with reverence use,
  Treat them like a parting friend:
  Nor the golden gifts refuse
  Which in youth sincere they send:
  For each year their price is more,
  And they less simple than before.

  John Dryden

  Time, Simple, Years

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2065, Delphi Classics

• And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
  With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

  John Dryden

  Time, Writing, Brass

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.77

• Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today:
  Be fair or foul or rain or shine,
  The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine.
  Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
  But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  "The Major Works".

• Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

  John Dryden

  Running, Time, Race

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.837.

• Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Life, Being Happy

  Imitation of Horace bk. 3, ode 29, l. 65 (1685)

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