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

TIME to TIRED

TIME.—Time comes stealing on by night and day.

Shakespeare.—Comedy of Errors, Act IV. Scene 2. (Dromio S. to Adriana.)

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To- morrow will be dying.

Herrick.—To the Virgins.

Time hath eaten out the letters, and the dust makes a parenthesis betwixt every syllable.

S. Marmion.—The Antiquary, Act III. Scene 1.

In yon lone pile, o’er which hath sternly pass’d
The heavy hand of all-destroying Time.

Anonymous.—Collett’s Relics of Lit. 20. 1. Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad? 2. I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act I. Scene 2. (Falstaff to Prince Henry.)

It was the hour when huswife morn
With pearl and linen hangs each thorn.

Churchill.—The Ghost, Book III.

I consider time as a treasure decreasing every night; and that which every day diminishes, soon perishes for ever.

Sir William Jones.—Poem of Tarafa, Verse 67.

When time itself shall be no more.

Addison.—A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, Verse 4.

Time must friend or end.

Shakespeare.—Troilus and Cress. Act I. Scene 2. (Pandarus to Cressida.)

We waste, not use our time; we breathe, not live.

Young.—Night II. Line 149.

Time wasted is existence; used, is life.

Young.—Night II. Line 150.

What though on her cheek the rose loses its hue,
Her ease and good-humour bloom all the year through;
Time still as he flies brings increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

Ed. Moore.—Song X. Verse 4.

TIME.—I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act V. Scene 5. (The King’s soliloquy in Pomfret Castle.)

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 1. (Olivia to Viola.)