Chapter THREAD to TIME of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

THREAD to TIME

THREAD.—He draweth out the thread of his verbosity, finer than the staple of his argument.

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Scene 1. (Holofernes to Sir Nathaniel.)

THREATS.—He threatens many that hath injured one.

Ben Jonson.—Sejanus, Act II. Scene 4.

Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat’ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror.

Shakespeare.—King John, Act V. Scene 1. (The Bastard to the King.)

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
For I am arm’d so strong in honesty,
That they pass by me as the idle winds,
Which I respect not.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Scene 3. (Brutus to Cassius.)

THRICE.—Thy shaft flew thrice; and thrice my peace was slain.

Young.—Night I. Line 213.

THRICE.—Thrice is he arm’d that hath his quarrel just;
And he but naked, though lock’d up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part II. Act III. Scene 2. (The King, after Suffolk and Warwick quarrel and leave him.)

Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 1. (The First Witch.)

THROUGH.—Through thick and thin, through
Mountains and through plains.

Spenser.—Fairy Queen, Book III. Canto 4.

TIDE.—There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries;
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Scene 3. (Brutus to Cassius just before the battle at Philippi.)

In haste alights and scuds away,
But tide and time for no man stay.

Somerville.—The Scented Miser.

Nae man can tether time or tide;
The hour approaches, Tam maun ride.

Burns.—Tam O’Shanter.

There is an hour in fortune
That must be still observed.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Little French Lawyer, Act II. Scene 3.

TIDINGS.—Prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act III. Scene 2.

TIME.—There’s a time for all things.