Time devours all things. [ Proverb ]

Death devours lambs as well as sheep. [ Proverb ]

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours. [ Dryden ]

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. [ E. B. Browning ]

An ass that carries a load, is better than a lion that devours men. [ Proverb ]

Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant, - a harpy that devours everything. [ Swift ]

Marriage should combat without respite or mercy that monster which devours everything, habit. [ Balzac ]

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing! [ Carlyle ]

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. [ William Shakespeare ]