This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · From the Harvard address that Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's intellectual declaration of independence.
Quotes about time from Aeschylus to Mike Tyson: time that teaches, heals, flies and waits for no one, each line checked to its source.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · From the Harvard address that Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's intellectual declaration of independence.
Edward Young · From Night Thoughts.
Homer · Eumaeus in the Odyssey.
Winston Churchill · To Clementine on their wedding anniversary.
William Shakespeare · Paulina in The Winter's Tale.
Zora Neale Hurston · From Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Sophocles · From Oedipus Rex.
Horace · The source reads: “Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam. Life's short span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.”
Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 30 March 1940
George Herbert · From Herbert's collection of proverbs.
Henri Estienne · A French proverb first printed by the scholar Estienne: si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait.
Virgil · From the Georgics, the origin of tempus fugit.
Winston Churchill · My Early Life (1930)
Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I’ve completely solved the problem. My solution was to analyze the concept of time. Time cannot be absolutely defined, and there is an inseparable relation between time and signal velocity.” · To Michele Besso in May 1905, on the idea behind special relativity.
Emily Dickinson · A two-line poem; the second line is "Believing what we don't believe does not exhilarate."
Benjamin Disraeli
François Villon · The source reads: “Mais oû sont les neiges d'antan? But where are the snows of yesteryear?”
Ovid · From the last book of the Metamorphoses.
Rainer Maria Rilke · From the letters to a young poet.
Winston Churchill · To Violet Asquith, 1906 (Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him)
William Ewart Gladstone
Dion Boucicault
Aeschylus · From Prometheus Bound.
Attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · A line long credited to Longfellow, without a place in his works found.
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