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- The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act V, sc. 1
- Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Pericles, Act II, sc. 3
- Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XII
- Ruin has taught me to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LXIV
- The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, sc. 2
- Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act II, sc. 3
- Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
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