Time is the measure of business, as money is of wares.
     - Francis Bacon, "Of Dispatch"

     What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
     - Old Scottish proverb

     Time is the greatest innovator. - Bacon, "Of Innovations"

     As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value
     of time.  Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence;
     and we become misers in this respect.
     - William Haglitt, "The feeling of Immortality in Youth"

     But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying
     near; / And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity.
     - Andrew Marvell

     Time goes, you say?  Ah no!  Alas, time stays, we go.
     - Austin Dobson, "The Paradox of Time"

     My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. - Job 7:16

     The noiseless foot of time steals swiftly by, / And, ere we
     dream of manhood, age is neigh! - Juvenal, "Satires IX"

     For though we sleep or wake, or roam or ride, / Ay fleets
     the time, it will no man abide. - Chaucer, "The Clerk's Tale"

     Like as the waves make towards the pebble shore, so do our
     minutes hasten to their end. - Shakespeare, "Sonnets LX"

     Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the
     roughest day. - Shakespeare, "Macbeth I.iii"

     Ah!  the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.
     - Robert W Service, "It is Later Than You Think"

     Consider, Sir, how insignificant this will appear
     a twelve-month hence. - Samuel Johnson, "in Boswell's Life"

     For time you lost many not recovered be.
     - Chaucer, "Troilus & Criseyde IV"

     Who hath time, and tarrieth for time, loseth time.
     - John Florio, "First Fruits 19"

     Time and I against any two. - Ben Jonson, "the Poetaster I.i"

     An ancient timepiece says to all: "Forever---never!
     Never---Forever!" - Longfellow, "The old clock on the stairs"

     Lost time is never found again. - John H Aughey

     Dost thou love life?  Then do not squander time, for that is
     the stuff of life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

     Time is the wisest of all counselors. - Plutarch

     Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset,
     two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes.
     No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
     - Horace Mann

     Time cuts down all, / Both great and small. - Anonymous

     Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else,
     is powerless against truth. - Thomas Huxley