And meanwhiletime goes about its immemorial workof making everyone look and feel like shit.

-Amis, Martin Louis
  London Fields, ch.2.

   Though raging stormes movis us to shake, And wind makis waters overflow; We yield thereto bot dois not break And in the calm bent up we grow. So baneist men, though princes rage, And prisoners, be not despairit. Abide the calm, whill that it 'suage, For time sic causis has repairit.

-Anonymous
  The Maitland Manuscript,'The Reeds in the Loch Sayis'.

Salud, Dinero, Amor†yTiempo. Health,Wealth, Love†and Time to enjoy them.

-Anonymous
Traditional Spanish wedding toast.

Il est grand temps de rallumer les e¤  toiles. It's high time we relit the stars.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les Mamelles de Tire¤  sias, prologue.

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

-Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'Thyrsis', l.80.

But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquerTime.'

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'As I  Walked Out One Evening'.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
Quoted in Robert Craft Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship (1972).

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
AD 397  Confessions, bk.11, ch.14 (translated by R S Pine-Coffin).

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

-Austen,Jane
Sense and Sensibility, vol.2, ch.12.

There is nothing to it.You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

-Bach,Johann Sebastian
Of the organ. Quoted in K Geiringer The Bach Family (1954).

Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.

-Bach, Richard
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

So let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is further and further to discover the truth.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.1, ch.4, section12.

Time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is weightyand solid.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.1.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.2, section1.

New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.14,'Of Nobility'.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.24,'Of Innovations'.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.24,'Of Innovations'.

To choose time is to save time.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.25,'Of Dispatch'.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeöor never.

-Baker,James Addison, III
  Of statesmanship. In Time,19 Mar.