Quotations About / On: TIME

  • 41.
    Gain time to lose.
    (Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in Worstward Ho, p. 20, Grove Press (1983).)
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  • 42.
    The woman named Tomorrow
    sits with a hairpin in her teeth
    and takes her time
    (Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind (l. 1-3). . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 43.
    And Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time
    Wheeling and whispering come,
    (James Elroy Flecker (1884-1919), British poet. Stillness (l. 8-9). . . Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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  • 44.
    With thee conversing I forget all time.
    (John Milton (1608-1674), British poet. Eve to Adam, in Paradise Lost, bk. 4, l. 639 (1667).)
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  • 45.
    Grief thief of time crawls off....
    (Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Grief thief of time.")
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  • 46.
    Great towers take time to construct.
    (Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 75, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970).)
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  • 47.
    Time for a little something.
    (A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882-1958), British author. Winnie-the-Pooh, in Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 6 (1926).)
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  • 48.
    Procrastination is the thief of time.
    (Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, playwright. repr. In Complete Works, ed. J. Doran (1968). Night 1, l. 393, The Complaint, or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (1742-1746).)
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  • 49.
    Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
    (David Lloyd George (1863-1945), Welsh Liberal politician, prime minister. Comment on preparations for the Versailles Peace Conference, Nov. 1918.)
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  • 50.
    The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
    wonderful: I'm surprised half the time:
    (Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Cut the Grass (l. 1-2). . . Harper Anthology of Poetry, The. John Frederick Nims, ed. (1981) Harper & Row.)
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