Nae man can tether time or tide.

Robert Burns

More information about this quote

Topic

The only constant is change Passage of time Ocean and sea

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Tam O'Shanter

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1791 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Edinburgh Herald/Edinburgh Magazine, Mar. 1791.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Robert Burns about the only constant is change: “Nae man can tether time or tide.”
Download
A quote by Robert Burns about the only constant is change: “Nae man can tether time or tide.”
Download
A quote by Robert Burns about the only constant is change: “Nae man can tether time or tide.”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote by Robert Burns

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men,
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain,
For promis'd joy.

Robert Burns

More information about this quote
Topic
Making plans Dashed hopes Fate The unexpected

Author

Robert Burns
Source
To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With the Plough.
Medium
Poem
Language
Scots
Time
1785 1780s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 0
Original Citation

Burns, Robert. "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785." Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "To a Mouse." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

Another quote from the 1790s

Soon shall thy arm, unconquere'd steam! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying-chariot through the fields of air.

Erasmus Darwin

The Botanic Garden

More information about this quote
Topic
Technological progress

Author

Erasmus Darwin
Source
The Botanic Garden
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Prophecies and predictions
Language
English
Time
1791 1790s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden. London: Joseph Johnson, 1791, pt. 1.

Another quote about Passage of time

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Ferris Bueller

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off at Amazon Watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off at Amazon
More information about this quote
Topic
Speed of life Passage of time Life
Speaker
Ferris Bueller
Actor
Matthew Broderick
Source
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Medium
Film
Genre
Teen comedy (film) Teen (film) Teen comedy Teen
Language
English
Time
1986 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Directed by John Hughes. Paramount Pictures, 1986.

Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

Principia

Buy The Principia at Amazon Buy The Principia at Amazon
More information about this quote
Topic
Cause and effect Laws of physics Physics Science

Author

Isaac Newton
Source
Principia
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
Latin
Time
1687 1680s 17th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 3.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 3.