By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too. [ William Shakespeare ]

With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]

What should be spoken here, where our fate,
Hid within an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us? [ William Shakespeare ]

Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine. [ Körner ]

Ha! let the devil seize thee by a hair, and thou art his forever. [ Lessing ]

Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Seize wisdom ere 'tis torment to be wise; that is, seize wisdom ere she seizes thee. [ Young ]

There is an hour in each man's life appointed to make his happiness, if then he seize it. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind. [ Swift ]

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. [ Beaconsfield ]

Plunge boldly into the thick of life! each lives it, not to many is it known; and seize it where you will, it is interesting. [ Goethe ]

Trifles we should not let plague us only, but also gratify us; we should seize not their poison-bags only, but their honey-bags also. [ Richter ]

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. [ Lowell ]

Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. [ Seneca ]

Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery. [ J. Locke ]

Those people who are always improving never become great Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. [ Hazlitt ]