Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
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.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
The more thorough the understanding needed, the further back in time one must go.
Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.