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.
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
One thing alone not even God can do,
To make undone whatever hath been done.
Now that I've met you,
Would you object to
Never seeing each other again?