(Publius) Vergilius (Maro), 70 BC-19 BC
was a classical Roman poet
Time flees, eternity dwells.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
was an US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, and printer
You may delay, but time will not.
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
was an US Transcendentalist author
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
( “Walden; or, Life in the Woods”, 1854 )
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007
was an US novelist
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
( “Slaughterhouse-Five”, 1969 )
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 1835-1910
was an US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867
was a French poet
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.