The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
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.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.
The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!