"You must remember this,
A kiss is just a kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh;
The fundamental things apply,
As time goes by."

1931 Song, ‘As time goes by’, by Herman Hupfield (1894 – 1931)

"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints in the sands of time."

1938 Poem, ‘A Psalm of Life’, by Henry Longfellow (1807 – 1882)

"Give peace in our time, O Lord."

Morning Prayer Versicle in The Book of Common Prayer, 1662

"A good time was had by all."

1937 Book, ‘A Good Time Was Had By All’, by Stevie Smith (1902 – 1971)

"The innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time."

1933 Poem, ‘In Memory of Eve Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz’, by W B Yeats (1865 – 1939)

"In search of lost time"

1913 – 1927 Book, ‘A La Recherche De Temps Perdu’, by Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)

"This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time."

1938 Speech, by Neville Chamberlain (1869 – 1940)

"We met at nine.
We met at eight.
I was on time.
No, you were late.
Ah yes! I remember it well."

1958 Song, ‘I Remember It Well’, by Alan Lerner (1918 – 1986)

"No time like the present."

1696 Play, ‘The Lost Lover’, by Mrs Manley (1663 – 1724)

"What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."

1911 Poem, ‘Leisure’, by WH Davies (1871 – 1940)

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."

1595 Play, ‘Richard II’, by William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)

"I am just going outside and may be some time."

1912 Last Words, in ‘Scott’s Last Expedition’, (diary) by Captain Lawrence Oates (1880 – 1912)

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

1742-5 Poem, ‘Night Thoughts’ by Edward Young (1683 – 1765)

"Remember that time is money."

1748 Advice to a Young Tradesman, by Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come."

1943, ‘Nation’, Anon

"But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying."

Poem, ‘Georgics’ No 3’, by Virgil (70 – 19 BC)

"Time for a little something."

1926 Book, ‘Winnie the Pooh’, by A A Milne (1882 – 1956)

"‘The time has come’, the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing wax –
Of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot –
And whether pigs have wings.’"

1872 Book, ‘Through the Looking Glass’, by Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898)

"Art is long, and time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave."

1838 Poem, ‘A Psalm of Life’, by Henry Longfellow (1807 – 1882)

"You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side."

1866 Speech, on the ‘Reform Bill’, by W E Gladstone (1809 – 1898)

"God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out."

1967 Book, ‘The Ghost and the Machine’, by Arthur Koestler (1905 – 1983)

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

1625 Essay, ‘Of Innovations’, by Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)

"Time like an ever rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten as a dream
Dies at the opening day."

1719 Hymn, ‘Oh God, our help in ages past’, by Isaac Watts (1674 – 1748)

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past."

1936 Poem, ‘Burnt Norton’, by T S Eliot (1888 – 1965)

"Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element of the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if the random element decreases, the arrow points towards the past … I shall use the phrase ‘time’s arrow’ to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space."

1928 Book, ‘The Nature of the Physical World’, by Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 – 1944)

"There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too."

Words, in ‘Dictionary of National Biography’, by Sir Francis Drake (c.1540 – 1596)

"It is utterly beyond our power to measure the changes of things by time. Quite the contrary, time is an abstraction at which we arrive by means of the changes of things."

1872, Ernst Mach (1838 – 1916)

"Time is a property of the universe that God created. It did not exist before the beginning of the universe."

Words, in ‘A Brief History of Time’ (by Stephen Hawking), attributed to Augustine (354 – 430)