Scattering Time

Famous quotes containing the words scattering and/or time:

    “Or of the garden where we first mislaid
    Simplicity of wish and will, forgetting
    Out of what cognate splendor all things came
    To take their scattering names;”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)