Time Flies Quotes - Page 2

• Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.

  Virgil

  Philosophical

  "Georgica (Georgics)". Poem by Virgil (Book III, line 284 in H. Rushton Fairclough's translation), 29 BC.

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• 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.

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Forever

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• Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.

  Theodore Gordon

  Past, Sea, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• Time flies, and what is past is done.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Past, Done

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• They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.

  Tablo

  Wings

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• Time flies when you're running out of money.

  James Cook

  Running

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• Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

  Anita Pallenberg

  Time, Memories, Heart

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• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.

  Sidney Lanier

  Sweet

  "Special Pleading" by Sidney Lanier, 1875.

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• When you’re engaged in what you love to do, it’s like driving in the fast lane. Time flies by and more roads open up to you, alternate routes you may not have even known existed.

  T. Harv Eker

  Up To You, May, Driving

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Oct 12, 2010

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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• Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Names, Heaven

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.76, HarperCollins UK

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• Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Adhd, Making Time

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• When you get a groove going, time flies.

  Donald Fagen

  How Time Flies, Groove

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• Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

  Carol Leifer

  Senior, Retirement, Community

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• Tempus fugit (time flies).

  Ovid

  Time

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• Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Restless, Constant

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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• It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Hate, Believe, Holiday

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• If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

  Jef Mallett

  Time, Fun, Thinking

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• Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.

  Anne Clark

  Climbing

  Song: Seize The Vivid Sky

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• I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

  Neneh Cherry

  Years, Albums, Ends

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• Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

  Paul Bowles

  Life, Death, Time

  "The Sheltering Sky". Book by Paul Bowles, 1949.

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Knees, Vapor

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH”, p.59

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• No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.

  Annie Dillard

  Doe, Duration, Moments

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.

  Marc Bolan

  Time, People, Able

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