If anyone could help me, I would greatly appreciate it. For my first drama assignment, we are to put together a vocal masque, which is basically like a chorus of lines strung together, that are then stylized vocally to sound really cool. We are all supposed to base our masque on one word, I have chosen TIME. Time, such an amazing, expansive, eternal word. I love it. Anyways, we are supposed to collect things that can be used for our collage of words and phrases. What I'm trying to say about time is that it is eternal, everlasting, the cause of change, and ultimately the cause of our death. Time = death. Time can seem to move so slow, time can seem to move so fast, we can't control time; time controls us, reveals us, etc.

I need to find any of the following about TIME to base my masque on:

- poems
- prose
- proverbs
- phrases (like "Time flies")
- related words
- Shakespeare quotes (I could use a good one of these. There must be a great quote about time somewhere in all of Shakespeare's amazing, amazing work).
- quotes
- anything else, at all!

If anyone will help, I will forever be at your service.

PEACE, Mike

Mike, use Yahoo's reference service to search all of Shakespeare's works for specific words and/or phrases.


The search for 'time' yielded 1356 results:


http://education.yahoo.com/search/os?p=time


As a sidenote, Shakespeare is said to have used a total of over 17,000 different words in his work. This exceeds the variety of words used by any other writer in any language. The closest that anyone in English has come to Shakespeare is John Milton, with 8,000 different words.

To put this into perspective, the average adult can get by very well with just 2-3,000 words.

He is also credited with having coined hundreds of words and/or given them a new meaning. Among the most famous terms are 'assassination' and 'besmirch'.

All my possessions for a moment of time (last words of Elizabth 1)

The innocent and the beautiful

Have no enemy but time (poet, W.B. Yeats)

Come what come may,

Time and the hour run through the roughest day (Shakespeare)

A week is a long time in politics (Harold Wilson)

Time is the devourer of everything (Ovid)

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them (Dion Boucicault)

The seeds of time (Shakespeare)

Time and tide wait for no man

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. (Will Rogers)

Remember that time is money (Benjamin Franklin)

A stitch in time saves nine (Proverb)

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare? (W.H.Davies)

Time flies when you are having fun

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. (Mark Victor Hansen)

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. (John F. Kennedy)

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. (William Shakespeare)

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

(Carl Sandburg)

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love time is eternity

(Henry Van Dyke)

Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely. (Thomas P. Murphy)

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician (Unknown)

Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas. (Groucho Marx)

Remember that time is money (Benjamin Franklin)

I've been on a calendar but I have never been on time (Marilyn Monroe)

Tempus fugit (time flies) (Ovid)

Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once (Unknown)

Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities (Paul Simon)

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” Diogenes Laetius

"Every second is of infinite value." Goethe

"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ..."
Michel de Montaigne

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz

One today is worth two tomorrows." --Benjamin Franklin

"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves." Lord Chesterfield

"There is nothing wrong with the younger generations that twenty years will not cure." Unknown

How about that Pink Floyd song?