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,— that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth.
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.