Time Flies quotes
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever."
"How time flies when one has fun!"
"- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!"
"Tempus fugit (time flies)."
"Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks."
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"Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall."
"As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed."
"Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11."
"Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety."
"Time flies, and what is past is done."
"The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old."
"Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed."
"Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it."
