“Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.”
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Virgil
6 quotes“Time flies never to be recalled.”
Shakespeare
5 quotes“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”
Stephen King
5 quotes“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
Haruki Murakami
4 quotes“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
Maggie Stiefvater
4 quotes“The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.”
Zora Neale Hurston
4 quotes“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
James Joyce
3 quotes“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
Charles Lamb
3 quotes“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.”
Ovid
3 quotes“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so”
Jane Austen
3 quotes“Time will explain.”
Leonardo da Vinci
3 quotes“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present ti...”
Pericles
3 quotes“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”