Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

Time flies never to be recalled.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Time flies whether you are having fun or not.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

I don't know where 12 months has gone.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

Never has the future become so rapidly the past.

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

You can't halt time.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.