Time Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Time


Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too. —Marcus Aurelius	1
Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the further we make it go. —Josh Billings	2
Time, like a brilliant steed with seven rays, and with a thousand eyes, imperishable, full of fecundity, bears all things onward. —Hymn to Time	3
Time’s shadows, like the shuttle, flee. —David Macbeth Moir	4
Time, like a seven-wheeled, seven-naved car, moves on. His rolling wheels are all the worlds, his axle is immortality. —Friedrich Rückert	5
For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with the arms outstretch’d, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. —William Shakespeare	6
Time is like the peacefulness of grass, which clothes, as if with silence and deep sleep, deserted plains that once were loud with strife. —Alexander Smith	7
Time is as wind, and as waves are we. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	8
Time, like the earth with flowers bespread In youthful spring, is dark and Dead when age and cares come on And friends and pleasures are all gone. —Walther von Der Vogelweide	9