The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (562 page)

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time brings the truth to light.

1539
tr.
Erasmus' Adages
37
Tempus omnia reuelat
.
Tyme discloseth all thynges.
1616
Adages
205
Time reuealeth all things.
1771
Letter
15 Apr. in
Publications of Mississippi Hist. Society
1925 V. 50
Time only will shew how far those Informations have been well founded.
1863
Hard Cash
I. vi.
I will answer .. that she will speak as distinctly to music as you do in conversation—Time will show, madam.
1913
Pollyanna
xxiii.
The doctor had looked very grave .. and had said that time alone could tell.
1929
Eye in Museum
xiv.
‘I'm not .. bringing any charge.’ .. ‘Oh .. a bright idea, perhaps. Or perhaps not so bright.’ ‘Time will tell,’ the Superintendent retorted.
1979
Satan Sampler
vii.
Somewhere in all this there is a very ancient and fish-like smell … I say no more … Time will or will not tell.