Quotes About Time

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youthAnd delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted o'er,In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

This night methinks is but the daylight sick.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.

We have heard the chimes at midnight.

The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

There is a history in all men's lives.

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

Young in limbs, in judgment old.

From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Nor time nor placeDid then adhere.

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

Two lads that thought there was no more behindBut such a day tomorrow as today,And to be boy eternal.

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure,Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.

This sweaty hasteDoth make the night joint-laborer with the day.

How long a time lies in one little word!

It was a lover and his lass,With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,That o'er the green corn-field did pass,In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;Sweet lovers love the spring.

How sour sweet music isWhen time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men's lives.

Fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.

Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time.