time is a great healer

English

Alternative forms

• time is the great healer

Proverb

time is a great healer

1. Synonym of time heals all wounds
   • 1913, Percy F. Westerman, chapter XXXIII, in The Rival Submarines‎^[1]:

     "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^[2], 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, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, 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.