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 four eights, that ideal of operative felicity, are here (New Zealand) a realized fact.
While we are speaking envious time will have fled. Seize the present day.
Many a woman has a past; but I am told she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
“I am already late, I fear. What time is it?”
“Time? Why the present, of course.”
Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream.
Day follows on the murkiest night, and, when the time comes, the latest fruits will ripen.