Thomas Love Peacock: Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time. — Thomas Love Peacock

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

Thomas Love Peacock

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Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things. — Ovid
Time, eftsoon will tumble All of us together like leaves in a gust, Humbled inde — Joaquin Miller
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure — John Dryden
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase? — Miguel de Cervantes
See! the dawn breaks and rends night’s canopy; Arise! and drain a morning draugh — Omar Khayyám
There is no 'true'. There are merely ways of perceiving truth. — Gustave Flaubert
Veritatis simplex oratio est. — The language of truth is simple. Seneca the Younger
Acer et ad palmæ per se cursurus honores, Si tamen horteris fortius ibit equus. — The spirited horse
Toutes les beautés contiennent, comme tous les phénomènes possibles, quelque cho — Charles Baudelaire
J'y suis, et j'y reste. — Here I am and here I stay. MacMahon
Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street... — Leonardo da Vinci