Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all . . .
—T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
—William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
Tempus fugit (time flies)
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Fasti (The Book of Days)
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
—Groucho Marx