There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC
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The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922