time heals all things
English
Proverb
- Alternative form of time heals all wounds
- 1888, Rudolf Baumbach, “The Ass’s Spring”, in Helen B. Dole, transl., Summer Legends, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., →OCLC, page 138:
- Time heals all things. Calm endurance took the place of uncontrollable anguish. One hope was left to the pair.
- 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 130:
- They sye that time ‘eals all things,
They sye you can always forget;
- 1976 [1862], Victor Hugo, “Part Three: Marius; chapter VI”, in Norman Denny, transl., Les Misérables, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 616:
- But time heals all things. Marius’s wrath abated, righteous though he held it to have been. He forgave her in the end; but it cost him an effort and he nursed his grievance for three whole days.
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