Skip to content

For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.

— William Somervile

Another quote →

Topics

Time

More quotes by William Somervile

My hoarse-sounding horn
Invites thee to the chase, the sport of kings;
Image of war, without its guilt.

The Chace (1735)

Fortune is like a widow won,
And truckles to the bold alone.

He taught them how to live and how to die.

Whate'er of earth is form'd, to earth returns,
* * * * The soul
Of man alone, that particle divine,
Escapes the wreck of worlds, when all things fail.

The Chace (1735)

Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!
Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spread
O'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,
And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.

The Chace (1735)

All William Somervile quotes →

You may also like

A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

Sanu Sharma

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: William Somervile (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.