The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601