Time Quotes by John Milton

“WE know no time when we were not as now..”

— John Milton

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

— John Milton

The never-ending flight Of future days.

— John Milton

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

— John Milton

Time, the subtle thief of youth

— John Milton

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

— John Milton

With thee conversing I forget all time.

— John Milton

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

— John Milton

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

— John Milton

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

— John Milton

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

— John Milton

Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

— John Milton

“With thee conversing I forget all time, all seasons and their change, all please alike.”

— John Milton

“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”

— John Milton

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

— John Milton

With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I…

— John Milton

For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the…

— John Milton

A mind not to be changed by place or time, the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a…

— John Milton

That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of…

— John Milton

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character…

— John Milton

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget…

— John Milton

Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed…

— John Milton

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all,…

— John Milton

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or…

— John Milton

The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the…

— John Milton

Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or…

— John Milton

“With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her…

— John Milton

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns…

— John Milton

“  Such Pleasure took the Serpent to behold   This Flourie Plat, the sweet recess of EVE   Thus earlie, thus alone; her Heav'nly forme…

— John Milton

But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

— John Milton

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

— John Milton

“A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a…

— John Milton

“...a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost;”

— John Milton