When Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
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.
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
And let its meaning permeate
Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.
By ignoring the past, we are encouraged to repeat its mistakes.
somewhere within sight
of the tree of poetry
that is eternity wearing
the green leaves of time.