YEAR

Related Subjects: Month, Time

1. Six years—six little years—six drops of time.—MATTHEW ARNOLD, Mycerinus

2. Years have hardier tasks
   Than listening to a whisper or a sigh.—STEPHEN VINCENT BENET, The Golden Corpse
   

3. A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.—Bible, Psalms 90:4
   

4. We spend our years as a tale that is told.—Bible, Psalms 90:9
   

5. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.—Bible, Psalms 90:10
   

6. Lament who will, in fruitless tears,
   The speed with which our moments fly;
   I sigh not over vanished years,
   But watch the years that hasten by.—BRYANT, The Lapse of Time
   

7. Lib'ral in all things else, yet Nature here
   With stern severity deals out the year.—COWPER, Table Talk
   

8. The wonderful year.—DRYDEN
   

9. We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.—EMERSON
   

10. The years teach much which the days never know.—EMERSON, Essays
    

11. A year is no contemptible portion of this mortal existence.—GIBBON, Miscellaneous Works
    

12. Sad, sad to think that the year is all but done.—CHARLES KINGSLEY, The Starlings
    

13. Nothing is swifter than the years.—OVID, Metamorphoses
    

14. Years know more than books.—Proverb
    

15. I will not let the years run over me like a Juggernaut car.—THOREAU, Journal
    

16. I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, . . .
    Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.—WALT WHITMAN, Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
    

17. The years like great black oxen tread the world
    And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.—W. B. YEATS, The Countess Cathleen