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.
A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized.
It is from Eternity that the representatives of God on earth derive their Authority.
Waiting for the time to pass you by; hope the winds of change will change your mind.
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
Those who adhere to the past won't be able to cope with the future.
Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history.
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.
Dost thou love life? then do not squander time; for that is the stuff life is made of.