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 sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Mere by-blows are the world and we,
And time within eternity
A sheer anachronism.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.