William Shakespeare - Time Quotes

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Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

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There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

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O good old man! how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion.

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The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

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You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies.

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There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature.

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This act is an ancient tale new told;
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.

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How long a time lies in one little word!
Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
End in a word; such is the breath of kings.

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

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In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'd jump the life to come.

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Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

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There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

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They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

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This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

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When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store.

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Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time.

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Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

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My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.

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Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young.

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The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
videlicet, in a love-cause.

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A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion.

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'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.

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The weight of this sad time we must obey;
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste.

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Ruin hath taught me thus 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.

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Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

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