I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962
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Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCThe past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601