![]() Like the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end -William Shakespeare.Like the swell of some sweet tune, morning rises into noon, May glides onward into June -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Like sand poured in a careful measure from the hand, the weeks flowed down -Paule Marshall.Like January weather, the years will bite and smart -Dorothy Parker.It always got worse -Anne Morrow Lindbergh ![]() Life goes like the river -Clifford Odets.Leisure is like a beautiful garment that will not do for constant wear -Anon.The word ‘over’ is spelled ‘o’er’ in the original. The lagging hours of the day went by like windless clouds over a tender sky -Percy Bysshe Shelley.If you let slip time, like a neglected rose it withers on the stalk with languished head -John Milton.The hours hunted him like a pack of bloodhounds -Edith Wharton.Like the moon when it is at its heights on the horizon -Albert Camus If time seems to pass so quickly, this is because there are no landmarks.The hours weighed like centuries on his heart -Lawrence Durrell.Here time swings idly as a toy balloon -Phyllis McGinley.Forty-five minutes passed, like a very slow cloud -Dylan Thomas.Every day yawned like a week -Donald Seaman.This line is the curtain raiser for Warren’s poem, Paradigm. Each year is like a snake that swallows its tail -Robert Penn Warren.Each class seemed endless to him, as if the hour were stuck to his back like his damp shirt -Helen Hudson.A decade falling like snow on top of another -Elizabeth Hardwick.The days slipped by … like apple-parings under a knife -Stephen Vincent Benét.The days chase one another like kittens chasing their tails -H.The day runs through me as water through a sieve -Samuel Butler.As the years go by me, my life keeps filling up with names like abandoned cemeteries -Yehuda Amichai.As the waves make toward the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end -William Shakespeare.Any decent church service lasts forty-five minutes, like the sex act -Heinrich Böll.About as much time left as an ice cube in a frying pan -William Diehl.
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