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But time flies like an arrow. When tax forms tax all firm men's souls, While farm girls slim their boyfriends' flanks; That's when the murd'rous thunder rolls – And thins the fruit flies ranks. Like tossed bananas in the skies, The thin fruit flies like common yarrow; Then's the time to time the time flies – Like the time flies like an arrow.
An example of the phrase as a sundial motto in Redu, Belgium.. Tempus fugit is typically employed as an admonition against sloth and procrastination (cf. carpe diem) rather than an argument for licentiousness (cf. "gather ye rosebuds while ye may"); the English form is often merely descriptive: "time flies like the wind", "time flies when you're having fun".
These examples are presumably inspired by the quip "Time flies like the wind; fruit flies like a banana", attributed to Groucho Marx. [23] To be effective in written form, a garden-path proverb must have the same spelling and punctuation as the original proverb, up to the point where the reader is supposed to back up, as in the "time flies ...
Time and tide wait for no man; Time flies; Time goes by slowly when your are living intensely; Time is a great healer; Time is money (Only) time will tell 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; To be worn out is to be renewed – Laozi, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – c. 531 BC) [11] To each his own
Time flies like seconds, fruit flies like bananas. 16:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC)Senrich The phrase also appears (in this exact form) in Wallace Tripp's illustrated book "Wurst Seller" copyright 1981. I first saw this quote myself in 1965 on a bathroom wall at Harvard University (where incidentally I was not a student).
The second half of your adult life begins when you start to memorize produce codes at the grocery store….bananas are 4011 🍌 — Taylor Ando (Imeson) (@TaylorImeson) September 7, 2023 Banana ...
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Self-dependent power can time defy, as rocks resist the billows and the sky. [3] [4] Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away. [4] [5] Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow [6] When I am gone, mark not the passing of the hours, but just that love lives on. The Concern of the Rich and the Poor [7] Time Takes All But Memories [8]