Time Quotes - Page 25

• We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

  Edward Young

  Mirrors, Justice, Assault

  Edward Young (1813). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.73

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• The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

  Edward Young

  Loss, Bells, Notes

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 55

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• There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

  Don Marquis

  Comforting, Trouble, Times Of Trouble

  'archy does his part' (1935) 'comforting thoughts'

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• When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.

  Daniel Webster

  Eye, Blood, Land

  Second Speech on Foote's Resolution, U.S. Senate, 26 Jan. 1830

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• There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.

  Charles Mackay

  Boys, Good Times

  Charles Mackay (1846). “Voices from the Crowd: And Other Poems”, p.23

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• To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

  Lu Xun

  Faults, Conclusion, Defects

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• Time is eternity begun.

  James Montgomery

  Inspirational, Eternity

  James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”

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• We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

  Will Wright

  Space, Games, Say Anything

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• The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.

  David Zucker

  Mean, Play, Comedian

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

  David Zucker

  Successful, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

  Will Wright

  Thinking, Long, Cameras

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• Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

  Julien Green

  Long, Life Is, Enough

  Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”

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• Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

  John Newton

  Loss, Years, Calendars

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.153

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• Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Calendars, Action

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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• No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

  Francis Bacon

  Artist, Years, Doe

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Angel, Loss

  Edward Young (1851). “Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes”, p.76

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• We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

  Edward Young

  Thinking, Long, Wish

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• Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Mother, Muggers, All Time

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Killing time takes practice.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Practice, Killing, Time To Kill

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• A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Wisdom, Hurt

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• There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reform, World, Anticipation

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.106, Delphi Classics

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• Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
  To wear away this long age of three hours
  Between our after-supper and bedtime?

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Dancing, Dancer

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.176

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• This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Economics, Meanness

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1772). “The Works of Shakespeare in Twelve Volumes: Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with Notes Explanatory and Critical”, p.41

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• We see which way the stream of time doth run.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Way, Streams

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.436

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• What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
  Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
  More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
  O weary reckoning!

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Eight, Seven Days

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 4, l. 172

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