Every minute starts an hour.
Howells William Dean 1837-1920
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
Hoyle Sir Fred 1915-
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Lewis C.S. 1898-1963
The Screwtape Letters
We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain - not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of
sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882
‘The Children's Hour'
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to Lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the Children's Hour.
Proverbs and Sayings
English
There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.
Rossetti Dante Gabriel 1828-1882
The House of Life ‘Silent Noon'
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
When twofold silence was the song of love.
Runyon Damon 1884-1946
‘The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown'
At such an hour the sinners are still in bed resting up from their sinning of the night before, so they will be in good shape for more sinning a little later on.
Ruskin John 1819-1900
Sesame and Lilies
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
Scott Sir Walter 1771-1832
The Heart of Midlothian
The hour is come, but not the man.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
A You Like It
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot:
And thereby hangs a tale.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Macbeth
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
‘The Secret Rose'
Far-off, most secret and inviolate Rose,
Enfold me in my hour of hours.