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Traveling: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Utendum est ætate; cito pede labitur ætas. We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. III. 65.

Longissimus dies cito conditur. The longest day soon comes to an end. PLINY the Younger-Epistolæ. IX. 36. Tanto brevius omne, quanto felicius tempus. The happier the time, the quicker it passes. PLINY the Younger-Epistolæ. VII. 14. Infinita est velocitas temporis quæ magis apparet respicientibus. The swiftness of time is infinite, which is still more evident to those who look back upon the past.— SENECA — Epistolæ Ad Lucilium. XLIX.

Maximum remedium iræ mora est. Time is the greatest remedy for anger.— SENECA — De Ira. II. 29.

Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.— SENECA — Thyestes. 619.

S. Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.— SENECA — Medea. 292.

Volat ambiguis Mobilis alis hora. The swift hour flies on double wings. и.— SENECA — Hippolytus. 1141.

Per varios præceps casus rota volvitur ævi. The wheel of time rolls downward through various changes.— SILIUS ITALICUS — Punica. VI. 121.

Fugit irreparabile tempus. The irreclaimable time flies.— VIRGIL — Georgica. III. 284.