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 flies on restless pinions—constant never.
Be constant—and thou chainest time forever.
I've found time can heal most anything
And you just might find who you're supposed to be
And time can heal, but this won’t
So if you’re coming my way, just don’t
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime
Out of Space—out of Time.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.