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“She's the original good time who was had by all.”

Time Women Originals All Time Good Times

“Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.”

Time Mountain Climbing Skates Climbing Mountain

“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.”

Time Pride Ambition Late Our Time Bullets Tow

Author:Porfirio Diaz

“Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.”

Littles Time Five Twenties

Author:Charles Dickens

“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?”

Night Time Choices Memories Gone Night Time Life Span

Author:Joan Didion

“Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.”

Time

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“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.”

Looks Running Earth Time Water Loses Sun Clear Fire Air Pure Notes Look Up Passages Her Beauty Quickening Pure 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.”

Knows Running Time Hours Sun Fool Months Kings Lovers Office Late Window Seasons Court Busy Harvest Curtains Sour Rags Unruly Pedantic Curtain 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.”

Stills Time Ambition Spring Climate Lilies Collectors Endeavour Explorers Unlucky Expeditions

Author:Gavin Douglas

“WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.”

Time Turns Gay Verses Locks Grey Amber

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.”

Heart Done Helping Hands Time Forever My Heart Kissing Glad Former Shakes Vow Brows Former Love

Author:Michael Drayton

“Swift was the race, but short the time to run.”

Running Time Race

Author:John Dryden

“Honeymoon's overtime to get married.”

Time Married Honeymoon

Author:Julius J. Epstein

“Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.”

Giving Time Accepting Gratitude

Author:William Faulkner

“He hath shook hands with time.”

Hands Time

Author:John Ford

“Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.”

Time Courses Fate Sea Eternal Command Steady Fists

Author:John Ford

“The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.”

Time Poet

Author:Roy Fuller

“I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.”

Ends Time Wish Enemy Painting Genius Oil End Times Wish You Regularity Vinegar Punctuality I Wish You Would Oil And Vinegar

Author:Thomas Gainsborough

“It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.”

People Knows Wells States Enough Time Movement Good Enough Sensations End Times Ink Spend Time Not Good Enough Ruts

Author:John Galsworthy

“But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.”

Soul Eye Time Rich Pages Currents Noble Rage Chill Spoil Repressed

Author:Thomas Gray

“Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.”

Heart Time Taste Crave

Author:Robert Greene

“How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!”

World Time Cities All Time Rome Unkind

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.”

Made Lying Night Time Song Delight Endless Shade Fleeting Fables

Author:Robert Herrick

“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.”

May Stills Death Poetry Time Opportunity Dying Flower Tomorrow Rose Flying Time Management Bud Impermanence Old Time Rosebuds Rose Buds

Author:Robert Herrick

“That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.”

Time Turns Glasses Sandy

Author:Thomas Heywood

“Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?”

Men Time One Day Caravans

Author:Ralph Hodgson

“Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.”

Giving Whole Running Time Three Sea Rivers Currents Dimensions Jordan Three Dimensions

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.”

Time Lord Mines Bird Rain Roots Strain Eunuchs

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.”

Running Time Genius Our Time Rejected Stereotype Popular Song

Author:Robert Hughes

“Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.”

Knows States Joy Time Praying Sickness Passages Shut Up Multitudes Woe Impatient

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.”

Wells Eye Time Stage Mirrors Constant Nerves Contempt Apes Courteous Scourge Deformity

Author:Ben Jonson

“Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.”

Ifs Love Should May Light Joy Night Time Sports Loses Sun Fame Prove Vain Length Toys Perpetual Good Will Rumours Celia

Author:Ben Jonson

“He was not of an age, but for all time!”

Age Time All Time

Author:Ben Jonson

“Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.”

Children Art Mother Time Emotion Art Is Works Of Art

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse' d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!”

Has Beens Art Soul Seems Pain Time Dies Names Half Rich Air Quiet Breaths Cease Ecstasy Muse Rhyme Midnight Pouring No Pain

Author:John Keats

“At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?”

Doe Time Energy Dissipation

Author:Lord Kelvin

“A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.”

Time Members Guests Household Old Time

Author:George F. Kennan

“In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.”

Pain Time Fall Hardest Friendly Savages Showers Bulls Oaks Lure Disdain Hawks Yoke Stoops Wedges Rue Haggard

Author:Thomas Kyd

“Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.”

Ifs Pain Time Felt Cry Thousand Blame Burning My Time Labour Torches Dames Blame Me

Author:Louise Labe

“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.”

Thinking Science Time Space Trouble Puzzles Time And Space

Author:Charles Lamb

“What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?”

Time

Author:Philip Larkin

“We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.”

Wells Remember Time Mets Late Eight Nine

Author:Alan Jay Lerner

“Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.”

Thinking Remember Time Girl Good Times Jewelry

Author:Anita Loos

“We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.”

Feels Past Time Hero Productions Magazines Related Spheres Idols Leisure Entitled Present Day Leisure Time

Author:Leo Lowenthal

“Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.”

Long Has Beens Lasts Beautiful Remember Time Taken Long Time Sorry Bridges Alas Ninety Sabbath Railway Sabbath Day

Author:William Topaz McGonagall

“The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.”

Past Time Fiction Pure Legends Biographies Mud Clay

Author:Bernard Malamud

“I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. MonsieurTallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest.”

Knows Giving Two Time Duty Victory Army Following Coaches Queens Glorious

Author:John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

“Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood.”

Thinking World Way Years Long Enough Time Sides Walks Love You Crime Ten Down And Complaining Indian Tides Flood Rubies Long Love

Author:Andrew Marvell

“Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.”

May Time Sports Bird Our Time Prey Amorous Languish Birds Of Prey

Author:Andrew Marvell

“There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.”

World Trying Time There Comes A Time

Author:Bette Midler

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