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Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.

Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.

William Shakespeare
Time, Feet, Stealing
"All's Well That Ends Well". Play by Thomas Middleton and William Shakespeare, 1741

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare
Karma, Time, Revenge
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [388]

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
Time, Past, Monsters
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145

Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.

William Shakespeare
Time, Eternity, Lackeys

And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

William Shakespeare
Time, Eye, World
William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2009). “As You Like It”, p.133, Cambridge University Press

See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.

William Shakespeare
Running, Time, Men
'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 5, l. 21

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.

William Shakespeare
Time, Memorable, One Day
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 4, sc. 5, l. 223

Old Time the clock-setter.

William Shakespeare
Time, Clock, Old Time
'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 324

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Time, Spring
William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.134

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

William Shakespeare
Wise, Time, Clouds
1597-8 Prince Harry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.2, l.133-5.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

William Shakespeare
Time, Travel, Pace
'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [328]

Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare
Time, Scythes, Defence
William Shakespeare, D. BARNSTORFF, T. J. GRAHAM (Translator.) (1862). “A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]”, p.36

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
Time, Ruins, Taught
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.928

Much rain wears the marble.

William Shakespeare
Time, Rain, Marble
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.359

Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

William Shakespeare
Time, Hands, Two
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

William Shakespeare
Time, Lasts, Faults
William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.151

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

William Shakespeare
Christmas, Time, Xmas
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

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

William Shakespeare
Time, Kings, Truth

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

William Shakespeare
Time, Future, Knowledge
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

William Shakespeare
Time, Pace, You Like It
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

William Shakespeare
Time, Justice, Trying
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.114

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

William Shakespeare
Time, Past, Ruins
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.595

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

William Shakespeare
Time, Goes On, Crutches
1598 Claudio. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.334-5.

The time is out of joint.

William Shakespeare
Time, Joints
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 188

Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.

William Shakespeare
Time, World, Surveys
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [81]

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