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.
I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope.
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,
Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
We shall forget by day, except
The moments when we choose to play
The imagined pine, the imagined jay.
All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours,
Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
With pens of adamant on plates of brass.