The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (563 page)

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TIME works wonders
1588
Exhortation to defend Country
F2
You .. thinke that time will worke wonders, though you your selves follow your owne pleasures.
1815
Letter
7 Jan. (1975) IV. 252
Time does wonders.
1845
(
title
)
Time works wonders.
1872
Satanella
II. xxiv.
‘I want you to like me.’ .. ‘They say time works wonders .. and I feel I shall.’
1982
Rebel Angels
4
But there was time, and I was to be in his outer room, constantly under his eye. Time works wonders.
time
TIMES change and we with time
Cf. L.
omnia
(also
tempora) mutantur nos et mutamur in illis
, all things (
also
times) are changing and we with them [attributed to Lothar I, Holy Roman Emperor 840–55].
1578
Euphues
I. 276
The tymes are chaunged as Ouid sayeth, and wee are chaunged in the times.
1666
Italian Proverbs
281
Times change, and we with them … The Latin says the same,
Tempora mutantur
,
et nos mutamur in illis
.
1943
Diary
21 Feb. (1979) 168
In English cities the Red Flag has been flown … Times change indeed, and we with time.
1981
Brock
31
Times were chaging and Melford with them.
circumstances
;
innovation

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