Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601
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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844