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.
No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
In the great inconstancy and crowd of events, nothing is certain except the past.
I would like to offer one short poem you can recite from time to time, while breathing and smiling
Do not think
I’ve reached where I am now
by slipping like a landslide
or evaporating like a cloud.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
Endure the hardships of your present state,
Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.
Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.