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TIME flies

Cf. L.
tempus fugit
, time flies.

c
1390
Clerk's Tale
l. 118
For though we slepe or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme.
1639
Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina
308
Time flyeth away without delay.
1776
Letter
21 Mar.
in Works
(1803) IX. 197
Time flies! Years of plenty .. disappear before the eternity to which we are all hastening.
1985
Dick & Jane
196
Six years of marital bliss, huh? Time flies when you're having fun.

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There is a TIME for everything

With allusion to
ECCLESIASTES
iii. 1 (AV) To every thing there is a season.

c
1390
Clerk's Prologue
l. 6
But Salomon seith ‘every thyng hath tyme.’
1540
Bible
(Prologue) +3
Ther is tyme for euery thynge.
1590
Comedy of Errors
II
. ii. 63
Well, sir, learn to jest in good time; there's time for all things.
1818
Northanger Abbey
xxx.
Your head runs too much upon Bath; but there is a time for every thing—a time for balls .. and a time for work.
1980
Going It Alone
I
. x.
There is a time for everything, and he hoped that, in the present exigency, Tim wasn't going to be .. frivolous.

opportunity
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TIME is a great healer

There are numerous expressions derived from the ancient concept that time heals, several of which are illustrated here. Predominantly used in the context of feelings and emotions rather than physical suffering. Cf. MENANDER
Fragments
dclxxvii. (Kock)