“What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.” TimePrideAmbitionLateOur TimeBulletsTow Author:Porfirio Diaz
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?” NightTimeChoicesMemoriesGoneNight TimeLife Span Author:Joan Didion
“Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.” LiteratureSecretDrinkPromiseDrunkenness Author:Miguel de Cervantes
“I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.” LooksRunningEarthTimeWaterLosesSunClearFireAirPureNotesLook UpPassagesHer BeautyQuickeningPure Water Author:John Donne
“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.” KnowsRunningTimeHoursSunFoolMonthsKingsLoversOfficeLateWindowSeasonsCourtBusyHarvestCurtainsSourRagsUnrulyPedanticCurtain Call Author:John Donne
“And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.” StillsTimeAmbitionSpringClimateLiliesCollectorsEndeavourExplorersUnluckyExpeditions Author:Gavin Douglas
“WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.” TimeTurnsGayVersesLocksGreyAmber Author:Michael Drayton
“Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.” HeartDoneHelpingHandsTimeForeverMy HeartKissingGladFormerShakesVowBrowsFormer Love Author:Michael Drayton
