Horace Quotes

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Time bears away all things.

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Time flies never to be recalled.

Time is not kind to everything.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

History can just be so unkind as time passes.