T. S. Eliot Quotes, Time Quotes, Past Quotes

Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Wise Quotes , Time Quotes

Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call countryants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Running Quotes , Time Quotes

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Kings Quotes

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Time Quotes , Men Quotes

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes , Time Quotes , Broken Quotes

Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Time Quotes , Art Quotes

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Valentines Day Quotes , Time Quotes

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Quotes , Time Quotes

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Time Quotes , Memories Quotes

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Time Quotes , Writing Quotes

Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Time Quotes , Twilight Quotes

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Time Quotes , Age Quotes

Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Time Quotes , Men Quotes

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Believe Quotes

Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Time Quotes

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Time Quotes , People Quotes

Much rain wears the marble.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Rain Quotes

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , People Quotes