(78 quotes found)
“When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it was goneI cannot put my finger on it nowThe child is grown, The dream is gone.I have become comfortably numb.”
Pink Floyd
“How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!”
William Shakespeare
“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
Christopher Morley
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
Charles Baudelaire
“West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go, / Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young star-captains glow.”
James Elroy Flecker
“All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan came aboard.”
John Gay
“If Old Dewey had just sailed away when he smashed the Spanish fleet, what a lot of trouble he would have saved us (On taking possession of the Philippines).”
William McKinley
“We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blowTo those who love us best.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.”
William Osler
“Art is long, and Time is fleeting”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
