Time Quotes
The sourced entries here are an odd mix: Edmund Burke on planning the future by the past (1791), Rollo May on learning to live in the present (1953), and a line about death from Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) that turns up on several pages because it fits more than one. Shakespeare leads the page by a wide margin, with T. S. Eliot a distant second.
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana” is credited to Groucho Marx almost everywhere and is flagged. No citation to Marx has been found. It first appears in the mid-1960s, unattributed, in logic and computing texts, as an example of why machines find ordinary sentences hard to parse.
The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say,
Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.
For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.
The end crowns all;
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.
A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments.
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.