Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911
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Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCI’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962