How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!


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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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Time, the subtle thief of youth
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His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His...
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How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sleep came on him as a thief, consciousness stolen like a forgotten coin from his pocket.
JASMINE SILVERA
He was idolized from his twentieth year on.
MATT BUSBY
Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke...
BARTON GELLMAN
Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades! Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE
I have never stolen. I am not a thief.
BENIGNO AQUINO III
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
One day my wife's credit card got stolen.. what a relief it was to find that the thief spends less t...
ANONYMOUS
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
OSCAR WILDE
True wealth does not burn; it cannot be stolen by a thief.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoi...
TERRY EAGLETON
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Society is better off with handcuffs around Hopkins’ wrists rather than a stolen ring around his g...
GARY GAMBARDELLA
...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as t...
GEORGE ELIOT
Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We have plenty of cover on the wing. Ideally, I would like a three-quarter but, until he becomes ava...
TONY SMITH
In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu b...
BIBLE
Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, an...
BIBLE
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote ...
MATTHEW PEARL
ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKIN...
JOHN MILTON
He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
People always ask him, instead of how his arm is, they ask him how his wing is doing.
DAN SKOG
As to his Wife, John minds St. Paul, He's one/ That hath a Wife, and is as if he'd none.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voic...
BIBLE
I wasted time, and now doth Time waste me: For now hath Time made me his numb'ring clock; My thought...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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DAVID LETTERMAN
How would it be.. if all my hate disappeared like my youth, if after all this time his very hatred o...
LOUISE WAREHAM LEONARD
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which G...
ISAAC NEWTON
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JAMIE SPENCER
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the merci...
EDWARD YOUNG
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.
JUNE WHITFIELD
It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it
PROVERB
Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a y...
NAZIM HIKMET
Monica: I got a leg, three breasts, and a wing. Chandler: how do you find clothes that fit?
FRIENDS
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look
NELSON ROCKEFELLER
A man whose axe was missing suspected his neighbor’s son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like...
JANE YOLEN
Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chan...
C. JOYBELL C.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all of my substance into that fat belly of his.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both T...
CLIVE BARKER
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu - meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were f...
DONALD HALL
That's the only bag I've stolen all year,
KEN GRIFFEY
His golden locks time hath to silver turned.
GEORGE PEELE
Punctuality is the thief of time.
OSCAR WILDE
Procastination is the thief of Time.
VIJU CHAKRAVARTHY
Procrastination is the thief of time.
EDWARD YOUNG
Procastination is the thief of time.
JOSEPH HELLER
Time, the greatest thief of all.
ALLY CARTER
Punctuality is the thief of time
OSCAR WILDE
...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
BARRY MCGEE
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
BIBLE
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is...
FRANCIS BACON
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He ha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The keeper of looted funds is as corrupt as the thief who stole the funds,for without a keeper of st...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professor...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.
NELSON ROCKEFELLER
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
A great-sized ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty ve...
BIBLE
Chirac was elected each time on a left-wing, social platform and then asked his various prime minist...
ERIC CHANEY
She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being...
JAY FREESE
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten
OSCAR WILDE
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
CRISS JAMI
For us this year, it seems they've been coming in bunches. Once one happens, two or three more are s...
BRIAN SIMMONS
Those papers that we have received paint a picture of John Roberts as an eager and aggressive advoca...
PATRICK LEAHY
I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop...
ETGAR KERET
Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very hap...
PLUTARCH
How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unre...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was...
TOM BROKAW
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother-and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL
John Book, for his first start of the year, pitched a great game. He gave us a really good effort to...
KURT PETERS
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my n...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native l...
WALTER SCOTT
Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER
The liar and the thief rejoice in their first year only.
GREEK PROVERB
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his pl...
BIBLE
Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.
STEVEN BRUST
How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What free...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in...
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
BIBLE
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation o...
PAUL D. BOYER
You never realize how much that meant when we had three or four guys on the wing. We all kind of spl...
MAURICE AGER
Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies we...
KAREN FOXLEE
"Stop thief," Dame Nature cried to Death As Willy drew his latest breath, "How shall I make a fool a...
ROBERT BURNS
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
CHARLES DICKENS
I came in my freshman year and got a little playing time and every year that has increased. That gav...
ANTHONY EDWARDS
Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have s...
BURTON CUMMINGS

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JOHN MILTON
Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition.
JOHN MILTON
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...
JOHN MILTON
In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON
Human face divine.
JOHN MILTON
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and...
JOHN MILTON
When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
JOHN MILTON
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an...
JOHN MILTON
For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON
Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
JOHN MILTON
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence ...
JOHN MILTON
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON