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Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.”

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George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) was an Irish-British playwright, critic, and socialist. He is renowned for his satirical and witty dramatic works. more

“Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.”

Littles Long Doe Time Hours Dark Five Flow Moved Rounds Ships Wheels Bells Riding Flood Warships

Author:Adam Skirving

“The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.”

Body Time Support Monsters Nourishment Extremity

Author:Tobias Smollett

“Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!”

Long Doe Ends Moving Time Hours Numbers Weary Feathers Sad Times

Author:Edmund Spenser

“There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.”

Seems Time Laughing Tree Sweet Bears Spring Bird Meetings Fruit Heavy Colour Climbs Labour Prime One Time Load Suspicion Harvest Joyous Deck Pastime Shady Wanton

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”

Eye Fear Halloween Funny Halloween Scary Halloween Inspirational Halloween Halloween And Friends

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.”

Men Time Grows Nostalgia Bridges

Book:Travels with Charley

Source: Travels with Charley

“Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?”

Said Time Father Fit Pension

Author:Laurence Sterne

“It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.”

Men Faces Time He Man Speech

Author:Wallace Stevens

“For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”

“Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .”

Men Years Time Grief Tears Glasses Ran

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

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