John Dryden Quotes

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

We cannot make history; we must wait while it is being made.

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.

I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming; it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster.

To-day is always different from yesterday.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

Time stoops to no man's lure.

In this world, only winter is certain

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

It makes sense that that's part of the story and everything, but that's part of any story of any record - where was it record and how long and what were the people doing. I think people want to know where these events are made. That's why I like the word "record."

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Time and tide and hookers wait for no man.