Time went on, relentlessly, and one by one the proud works of man were lost.
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.
We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
In leaves, more durable than leaves of brass,
Writes our whole history.
We see time's furrows on another's brow,
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How few themselves in that just mirror see!
Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?