time is a great healer

English

Alternative forms

time is the great healer, time is a great healer of all wounds

Proverb

time is a great healer

Synonym of time heals all wounds
- 1913, Percy F. Westerman, chapter XXXIII, in The Rival Submarines‎:
  "Time is a great healer, Mr. Hythe; but the reminiscences of my early struggles with fate cannot be easily erased. […] "
- 1914 December 9, Punch, or the London Charivari‎, volume 147:
  Time is a great healer, but twelve years is not long enough.

Further reading

Jennifer Speake, editor (2015), “time is a great healer”, in Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 319
Colin McIntosh, editor (2013), “time's a great healer”, in Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 4th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, reproduced in the Cambridge English Dictionary website, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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